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...Brand Habit...
...diseases discovered by the medico-advertising departments of U. S. business (TIME, May 27) - Brand Habit, the insidiousness of which is explained by those good souls who torture the air waves on behalf of Kentucky Winners cigarets...
...gather that sufferers from this ailment neglect to buy Winners simply because they are used to asking for a particular brand, and therefore miss all the pleasures that Winners have to offer...
...Officials in NRA and businessmen fond of NRA devised strange schemes and ingenious devices to get around the Supreme Court's ruling. But by the end of the week one fact was manifest: The Supreme Court had shattered NRA into such fine particles that a new brand of cement would be needed to make them stick together again. NRA wired code authorities that their official status and official existence had ended-both "officials" underlined. Attorney General Cummings announced that the Administration was abandoning 411 NRA cases in the courts...
Last autumn the Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank was stayed from foreclosing a $9,000 mortgage on William W. Radford's 170-acre Kentucky farm by a brand-new device for scaling down farm debts and forestalling foreclosures-the Frazier-Lemke Act, a non-Administration measure filibustered to passage by Senator Huey P. Long in the last days of the 73rd Congress. That law permitted a farmer to declare himself bankrupt and keep his farm by having its current value appraised, then paying this sum to his creditors within five years. Farmer Radford got his debt scaled down...