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...there impressed upon Cineman Jack Warner a fact long familiar to stage impresarios: although most people may doze through his plays, they will pay well to see William Shakespeare performed. With what the cinema industry immediately hailed as an unparalleled display of courage, optimism, and esthetic vision, Producer Warner thereupon started work...
Fanchon & Marco thereupon complained to the Department of Justice that, by withholding their films, Warner, Paramount and RKO were violating the Sherman Law. A Federal Grand Jury indicted the three companies. To cinemanufacturers, the St. Louis case last week looked like the spearhead of a Government attack on their film-selling system...
...luncheon never occurs. Congress loses no time declaring war against Japan. Like peace-loving President Grover Cleveland before him. President Gordon thereupon reminds Congress that as Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy he alone can order the nation's forces into battle. This he does not propose to do. Instead, he takes ship for Japan for a conference with jingo Premier Yato. In Tokyo, threatened with impeachment, imprisonment, assassination, President Gordon, with the help of a rising tide of Japanese peace sentiment, comes through in great style. The war is called off. He hopes he has established...
Overjoyed at this evidence that Soviet workmen are finally getting the knack of how to use Soviet tools, Commissar Ordzhonikidze sent a letter of hearty approval to Donetz' Party Chief Sarkisov. Thereupon Chief Sarkisov promptly ordered: "The Stakhanov system must be adopted throughout the Donetz Basin and executives who attempt to hinder it will be dismissed. Above all there must be no change in the rates of payment. If a miner or group of miners can earn far above the average, let them earn it, because the country needs coal. If miners earn 2,000 or 3,000 rubles...
...upped each summer from an eight-hour to a ten-hour day, promised overtime pay, which they did not receive. After a quarter-century of fruitless litigation 1,377 workers got the U. S. Court of Claims to notify Congress that their claims amounting to $322,000 were valid. Thereupon Hiram Mann prepared to lobby for the claimants before Congress...