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...carriers asked the ICC to increase rates by an average of 4-7%-One argument: at war's end the railroads expect to spend $1.7 billion for new equipment, but owing to higher prices will get less for their money. Examples: passenger coaches sought during the '20s and still in service cost $30,000 v. replacement cost...
...Democratic primary. Hollywood's liberal Democrats cheered. P.A.C. boasted nationally that this was their work. But these happy pink faces turned lobster red when Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner dug up the fact that Styles had been a Klansman in Queens County, N.Y. in the mid '20s...
...greatest in tradition and still richest in performance is the famous Moscow Art Theater. It thrives on the heritage of its founder and first director, Konstantin Sergeivitch Stanislavski. There are no extreme experiments in the Russian theater now, as there were in the '20s, but the most carefully experimental is Mossoviet. The pet theory of its director, Yuri Zavadski, is that decor usually gets in the way of actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses...
Germans muttered a shuddery word: Feme, from the Old German veme, meaning punishment. Cornered Nazis were turning back to the lawless early '20s, when Feme courts spread terror among republicans. They planned a second revival of the medieval Feme, the law of the days of the robber barons...
...conferees had been told that Washington charwomen receive more pay than 44,000 U.S. teachers). The President spoke in support of NEA's drive for federal aid to education without federal interference. He also told a little story about a young Georgian who, in the early '20s, had asked him to do the diploma honors at a high-school graduation. "Are you the president of the class?" asked Mr. Roosevelt. "No," replied the youth, "I am the principal." The 19-year-old principal had had one year's college training, got $400 a year for running...