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American Mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are over-worked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner, who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft...
...federal expenditures, a general tax reduction, but it also urged expansion of social-security coverage and benefits, further rural electrification, federal aid to states for "subsistence, shelter and medical care." It urged freer world trade but it insisted that U.S. industry and farmers be protected from the products of "underpaid foreign labor." It stoutly opposed the Brannan Plan but it promised the farmer "fair" support prices...
...money yarns, The Cocktail Party is a woozy piece about a misunderstood writer who finds understanding in his young son; The Pheasant Hunter is a restrained and moving sketch of a boy who is learning to hunt. Saroyan was not exactly underpaid for either of them, but the second is good enough to suggest that if he could ever drop his vast enterprise in egocentricity he might write some first-rate stories...
...Other conductors agreed. Said one: "We have no other intention except to fill our stomachs. Why raise trouble if we could live on our income? . . ." The conservative South China Morning Post editorialized: ". . . their ultimatum has more economic basis than political: it will be agreed that some of them are underpaid...
...Mulberry Street version of Joseph and his brethren, it tells the story of Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson), an immigrant Italian banker, and his four sons. One of the sons (Richard Conte), a cocky, hard-boiled young lawyer, is his father's favorite. The other three are underpaid, overworked stooges at the old man's bank...