Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next month, people who can afford to pay 50? for a magazine and have the time to read 30,000 word "abridgments" will be offered Omnibook, published and edited by Robert Kenneth Straus, New York City Councilman and son of Jesse Isadore Straus, late Macy store tycoon and Ambassador to France. Each Omnibook page will contain four book pages with margins trimmed. Each number will include about 100 pages from each of five books...
...Julius Caesar cut to half its ordinary size. Biggest Shakespeare news this season may well be a Hamlet swollen to twice its usual bulk. Last week Actor-Manager Maurice Evans (Richard II) rang up the curtain at 6:30 p.m. on "the first uncut Hamlet in New York" before a half-fashionable, half-earnest first-night audience who sat back grimly in their seats and waited to see if they could take it. When, after allowing a half-hour intermission for dinner, Evans rang down the curtain at 11:20, the audience proved how they could take it by giving...
...Committee had definitely swiped control from Senator O'Mahoney. At least the committee last week sent out a batch of subpoenas without Chairman O'Mahoney's knowledge. Nonetheless, Senator O'Mahoney is still TNEC's titular chief and when he rose before the New York Board of Trade for his first complete explanation of his committee's purpose, Business sat up and took notice. Excerpts...
Reactions of Business to this were for the most part grudging acquiescence tempered with considerable confusion which the New York Times best expressed: "It would be odd indeed if an inquiry which began by attacking the evils of monopoly should end by attacking the evils of competition." Meanwhile, TNEC announced that its first attack would begin with hearings on November 14 on the patent situation in the glass industry and the proxy battle over the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry, last spring...
...Secretary of War Louis Johnson summoned four utility bigwigs to Washington to discuss the Administration's long-bruited plan to foster a billion dollars worth of utility expansion for purposes of national defence. Taking the hint, utility stocks soared to new highs for the year on the New York Exchange, led the industrial and railroad averages also to new high ground...