Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's great personal popularity among Negroes, the poor and the underprivileged, Bruce Barton cried: "The fact remains that this mass feeling toward the President is the controlling political influence of our day. To ignore it is blindness, to inveigh against it is political insanity. The intelligent attitude is to admire it, covet it and set industriously and sincerely to work to deserve...
Fortnight ago Big Steel not only yielded gracefully to President Roosevelt's demand for price cuts, but quietly took what Iron Age called "a long step toward abolishing the controversial basing-point system." It lowered Birmingham and Chicago prices to a par with Pittsburgh (TIME, July 4). The price cuts caught the public eye, but in the steel world the removal of the old differentials caused a consternation which last week reached epic proportions. Other companies struggled to get into line. Small independents stormed that they could...
There has never been much doubt about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...
...Also approved was a plebiscite in which 1,000,000 members of the church will be polled in November on their attitude toward Government action for job security; Government ownership of utilities: labor organization; capitalism...
...counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week, Mr. Martin & partisans made the sweep complete. In brief routine announcement that went almost unnoticed by the press they announced that the Exchange...