Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resigned as a Federal judge in Kentucky had declared the NRA coal code unconstitutional. Last week his clients were 19 Kentucky coal companies whose case was joined with that of Coalman Carter. Other weapons were arguments used in overthrowing NRA, that prices, wages, hours, etc.''were not subject to Federal tinkering under the power of Congress "to regulate commerce . . . among the several states...
Twentieth Century-Fox boasts that its Lew Pollack (Charmaine, Two Cigarets in the Dark) can produce a song on any subject if he is given an hour's notice. But Warners' boast is bigger. Musical cinemas seemed doomed until Harry Warren and Al Dubin turned out the tunes for Forty-Second Street, went on to do Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Wonder Bar, Twenty Million Sweethearts. Fortnight ago their Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935) was voted the best song of the year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (TIME, March...
Taking the cue from Dr. Rice, the huge, proletarian New York Daily News forthwith launched an editorial campaign. It was criminal and foolish, said the News, to withhold from the public a full & free knowledge of venereal prophylaxis. The News soon discovered that the subject was alive with reader interest. Many of the paper's 2,900,000 purchasers wrote in to praise it for frankness and public spirit. Others denounced the paper for encouraging immorality. And a few News readers told how they had contracted tragic ailments for want of proper information...
...Bureau, where the helpful journal also peddles at nominal rates sound advice on cookery, fashions, reducing exercises. To top it all, the News took generous space in its own pages to advertise Venereal Diseases & Prophylaxis, thus breaking all records in modern metropolitan journalism for frankness on an elaborately tabooed subject...
...good steelman can think of nothing more unpleasant in his industry than a rip-roaring price war. Such a thing has never happened in the U.S. since the Elder Morgan promoted U.S. Steel Corp. in 1901. On the subject of prices the typical 1936 steelman feels that the best status is the status...