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...pictures; it gives exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally bad pictures. All reform agencies in the cinema have objected to block booking; none has ever made any headway in preventing it from becoming standard practice in the industry. Even such a product of the New Deal as the Cinema Code had to bow to block booking-a fact which caused Dr. Lowell to refuse a seat on the Code Authority (TIME, Jan. 1). Remarked cynical Terry Ramsaye in his Motion Picture Herald: "With a great flourish to publicity in the lay press it is announced that Mrs. August Belmont...
...took a complaint against a big firm into court. Attorney General Cummings applied to a Federal district court in Delaware to issue an injunction restraining Weirton Steel Co. from violating Section 7 (a). This merely transferred to court the old fight on whether Weirton Steel had violated the steel code in refusing to recognize the A. F. of L. steel union, forming its own company union, and declining to supply a list of its employes for the National Labor Board to hold a poll on union preference. Promptly the leaders of the A. F. of L. steel union marched...
...investors (except professional security buyers) ever read even the few material facts in the old one-page prospectus. Today a prospectus for a big corporative issue contains 50 or 60 pages of facts. ¶ Lately the Senate asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate monopolistic tendencies under the Steel Code. Last week in a 70-page report the Commission said that the Steel Code did indeed foster monopoly. It struck at the domination of the Code Authority by a handful of big producers, flayed the price-fixing provisions. Particularly obnoxious to the Commission was restoration of the ancient "Pittsburgh plus...
...still going on. But it was news indeed last week when a Federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted and ordered arrested the top executives in two of the biggest oil companies on the Pacific Coast for aiding and abetting the price war and for violating the Oil Code...
...over the water in a series of monotonous victories. This spring with a strong, heavy crew Oxford set about the business of acquiring a victory for a change. Practices were guarded and secret. A system of buzzers and bells was rigged in the boat to signal the beat in code, so the rival cox could not count the stroke. There were special instruction sessions in the London Rowing Club tank. The crew was shifted this way and that. No expense was spared to get a pair of specially designed shells. Thinking the new shells too slim, coaches ordered another...