Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME ERRS BADLY IN STORY ON ESQUIRE MAGAZINE ISSUE OF OCTOBER SIXTEENTH STOP MENS STORES HAVE NO MORE INTENTION OF GIVING AWAY COPIES OF ESQUIRE THAN OF GIVING AWAY GARTERS SOCKS HANDKERCHIEFS OR ANY OTHER FIFTY CENT RETAIL ARTICLES STOP ESQUIRE IS SOLD THROUGH MENS STORES SIMPLY AND SOLELY BECAUSE IT IS A MANS PRODUCT AND MENS STORES ARE ITS MOST LOGICAL POINT OF SALE. . . . THERE IS NO BASIS ON WHICH A MAN CAN GET A FREE COPY OF ESQUIRE ON WHICH HE COULD NOT GET A FREE COPY OF TIME...
...their enfiefed barn before the first of the month. The point they miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able...
...fight against the "stop-loss" provision of the code. Brother Percy has the sage counsel of Brother Jesse Isidor, who returned to the U. S. for an. operation last month...
...Mary Harriman Rumsey, head of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Committee. She perked up her ears and flatly denounced the whole fair practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss" was price-fixing and nothing more. Consumers' leagues, Granges, the American Farm Bureau Federation sniffed a rat and began to howl. To these groups price-fixing in any form meant only one thing: a deliberate attempt to gouge the public...
...With President Roosevelt impatient to get his last major code out of the way, General Johnson gave his off-hand opinion of Article VIII: "Economists say this invoice cost plus 10% is pyramiding, but I can't see that. We want to stop widespread price-cutting. There isn't a business that can make a retail turnover on less than 10%. There are some esoteric arguments made against the plan, but I can't see them...