Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader was Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black. The case involved the right of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent Standard Education Society from advertising, as a free gift for subscribers to its $69.50 loose-leaf supplement service, an encyclopedia which the F. T. C. had found normally sold at $69.50 with no charge for the supplement. In his opinion, in which all of his eight colleagues concurred, Justice Black ruled for the Commission, gave an outline of his reasoning...
...acres of oil lands held largely by foreign concerns in the States of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas. A sweeping decree, employing Article XXVII of the Constitution, which makes all subsoil wealth the property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary, and 500,000 acres leased to the French-financed Compania Agricola y Colonizadora de Tabasco. Nationalization of oil lands not under lease has been proceeding apace for some months...
...costs less to travel from Newark to Chicago than it did a year ago, thanks to us." Last week TWA again set fire to the passenger fare structure, horrifying its rivals by suddenly introducing nationwide air "excursions" that for the first time put general airplane travel below most standard railroad and Pullman rates...
...reckoning the rail cost, meals en route and tips at journey's end are not included, TWA carries passengers from Los Angeles to New York in 16 hours, provides free meals en route and no tips are necessary; by rail in standard trains the journey takes about 77 hours and generally requires some $10 extra for meals, $2 in tips...
...length, scrupulously giving facts, interpretation and speculation for what they are worth. In this perspective, European art and artists assume new proportions and come under new categories. Reasons appear for praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time a reader arrives after 900 pages at Matisse and Derain, Braque and Picasso, he neither needs nor is given any disproportionate talk on these artists...