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Last week, for showing this old rabble-rouser at his East Orange, N. J. cinema theatre, retired big-league Baseball Pitcher Adolph J. ("Otto") Rettig faced the possibility of three years in jail, a fine of $5,000. The complaint: violation of a State statute, passed in 1935 to curb Nazi activity, forbidding any representation that "incites, counsels, promotes, advocates or symbolizes hatred, violence or hostility against any group of persons by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship." The complainants: representatives of some 5,000 East Orange Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Protest | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...First Income, Continental, and (more than a third) from Reynolds itself. The control stocks of Continental and Reynolds, said Mr. Ballantine, had no asset values, the prices were excessive and the sellers should have known that some raid on the companies' assets was planned. Further the bill of complaint specified other interesting uses of Continental's funds: to buy all stock of Corporate Administration, Inc., substantially the only asset of which was a management contract with Administered Fund Second, Inc.: to buy stock of an aircraft corporation regarded by the trustee as of little or no value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Puzzle Started | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...reasons for reducing the loan period to two weeks is the opinion expressed by several undergraduate publications last fall. At that time the month loan was referred to as an "old complaint," and the two week period used in the majority of college and university libraries was suggested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Loans Reduced to Two Weeks Starting June 23 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...length of time involved in the negotiations, their frequency and the persistence with which the employer offers opportunity for agreement. . . . We deem it necessary to re-emphasize the obligation which rests upon the board as a quasi-judicial tribunal. The very fact that . . . the board files the complaint, hears the complaint through its examiner, and then makes a decision thereon, requires it with scrupulous impartiality to evaluate the evidence presented on behalf not only of the employes but also of the employer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Necessary Emphasis | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...much has been said about the unfairness of lab courses cutting chemistry students out of extra-curricular activities, that the real complaint of the chemists has been quite overlooked. Chemists, and biologists, too, realize the necessity of lab courses, without which they could not possibly get any real understanding of their subjects, and they have no objection to the lab work itself. What the chemists want is to be able to arrange their lab time so that more afternoons would be free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHTS IN MALLINCKRODT | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

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