Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that Mr. Sousa originally sold Washington Post to a Philadelphia pub:lisher for $35. Later Carl Fischer purchased that publisher's catalogue including the Sousa music. Thereafter (still during the term of the first copyright period) Carl Fischer made a new agreement with Mr. Sousa in accordance with which Mr. Sousa and his estate were to receive a royalty on every copy sold in every arrangement published...
...needed something to restore its respectability after the political smears it acquired during Harry Hopkins' regime. The 130-hour provision, to make high-priced reliefers do more work for their money (though still not work anywhere near the legal maximum of 44 hours a week for privately employed workers), earned the approval of private employers. It promised to promote efficiency in WPA. That it now produced a fierce racket from all three big political wings of Labor was intensely embarrassing. It put Franklin Roosevelt, already bedeviled by an Isolationist bloc in the Senate, on a new and unexpected hotspot...
...painful to the corporation; it was stimulating, exciting for the workers: something new in the newspapers every day, and no man knew when his marching orders might come. Moreover, a few men at a time were exerting pressure as menacing as a general walkout would be, while those still at work kept drawing...
That would be a Tragedy of Errors. For the U. S. wants Peace. But the U. S. has spent nearly eight years trying to make up its mind what it will do to stay at peace. And still the U. S. does not know. Its quandary arose nearly eight years ago when the U. S. people discovered themselves Babes in a pre-war World...
Cash & Carry. But fear of war still stirred in Congress. So in May 1937 another Neutrality Act was passed. At the instigation of Bernard M. Baruch, wise old chairman of the onetime War Industries Board, it added to the provisions of the earlier acts, authority for the President to forbid the export of any goods to a warring nation except on a cash & carry basis. He never used this power and two months ago it expired...