Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establish himself as America's number one patriot, movie magnate Carl Laemmle, Sr. recently put himself on record as an advocate of a national "Buy American" campaign in a statement which he describes as "of such general importance that it transcends the limits of a motion picture department...
Last week the foregoing declaration by the Supreme Court of the U. S., and the judicial action based upon that rudimentary statement of public ethics, seriously disturbed the National Labor Relations Board, potentially affected the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Bituminous Coal Commission, many another quasi-judicial Federal agency...
...Further outlook for the British Isles: Fair over Ireland and England." Instead of a matter-of-fact report on the weather, the statement might well have been the prognostication of a political commentator for that afternoon at No. 10 Downing Street British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had put their signatures to a far-reaching accord and buried the bloody shillelagh which for seven centuries the two nations have been hurling back & forth across the rough Irish...
...Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing at 66, contemplating retirement. Bishop Ainsworth urged Southern laymen to give their final, necessary approval to the merger. He also issued a sharp statement...
...present outlook is very poor." With this gloomy statement. President Walter P. Paepcke of Container Corp. last week announced his company's omission of the usual quarterly dividend. Container's first quarter net had plopped from a 1937 profit of $626,970 to a 1938 loss of $53,198. With a few exceptions the same sort of thing was being experienced last week by almost every other U. S. industry. Samples...