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"A vigilant, vigorous, and full-time enforcement of existing regulatory obligations is essential. But even more important is a progressive assault upon the roots of practices which make many of these rules necessary. That assault can be a joint venture of the commission and the exchanges-and it is my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Casino Allowed | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

In two plays running on Broadway, offstage organ music is simulated by that versatile instrument, put on the market two years ago by Inventor Laurens Hammond, which produces organ-like sounds- and many others-by electrical vibrations (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week the American Federation of Musicians, ever vigilant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unions & Hammond | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

At the first stage it is possible for a candidate to be personally known to a majority of the electors. At higher stages the reputation of the candidate is increasingly if not entirely his press, radio and cinema reputation. In the Soviet Union the press, the radio and the cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pulp or No Pulp! | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Around Boothbay harbor and Wiscasset last week wormdiggers were working night and day to meet the demand of an unusually good fishing season. At low tide the diggers wade around in knee-deep mud, combing wrigglers to the surface with long-tined clam rakes. A lucky day's haul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Worms | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Though many authorities question the project's profitableness, New York City expects to make money from its investment in Stapleton Free Port. In the first year it is estimated that the port will handle 120,000 tons of goods. Wharfage and other revenues from the five piers and warehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Free Port | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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