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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prompt adoption of this idea will immediately stop all wrangling; avoid party splits; and insure final settlement in the precise way the majority wants. Such a decision should please every loyal American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...refuse back to shore, spreading it along New Jersey's otherwise fine resort beaches, polluting the water, depreciating property values. New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to enjoin New York's garbage dumping as a public nuisance. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the city to stop its evil practice, but allowed it a "reasonable time" (yet to be fixed) in which to construct garbage incinerators. As of "no importance" the Supreme Court put aside New York's defense that the dumping took place beyond the three-mile limit and hence outside U. S. territorial jurisdiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Garbage | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...dramatically clear, namely: 1) That steel companies are engaged in a mean and vicious war of price-cutting; 2) that buyers of steel (e. g. the automobile manufacturers) are demoralizing he industry by their "ghoulish glee" in forcing prices down; 3) that if insensate price-cutting does not quickly stop, worse conditions will follow. Extracts from the Farrell speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Price of Billets | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...counterfeiting its own money." Object of such counterfeiting would presumably be to prevent the holder of a banknote from jumping to the conclusion that the entire issue was inflated when he saw a serial number in the billions. If some deflation can be achieved in Russia "state counterfeiting" may stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Rubles to Burn | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...Tune: "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush." Theme: doppel-rohrgcdeckt, the name of the organ-stop that produces a flute effect. Gedickef is meaningless, inserted to jingle. * Enlarged to book form: THE PIPE ORGAN PUMPER * Greenberg, New York, 70pp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pumpers | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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