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Nothing in the bill prevented employers from slashing wages to compensate for the new workers which the Senate was trying to force them to hire. The measure's critics loudly pointed out this defect, predicted a dire slump in already deflated wages or else a sharp jump in manufacturing sales prices. For the Black Bill to be completely effective nothing less drastic than a minimum wage provision was required and this the Senate did not yet dare to vote...
...members of the present college generation confess themselves truly pictured by Hemingway, and, as Fadiman says, "as vitally maimed as the hero of The Sun Also Rise," they confess themselves beaten, not by the war, with which they had no direct contact, but by the depression. A great many dire things indeed may be predicted from such a standpoint...
...while looking into the whole matter of debt reduction, to suspend the British payment of 95,550,000 gold dollars due Dec. 15. Addressed less to the President than to the U. S. public, it did not flatly refuse to pay but depicted dire consequences if payment were forced. As the President scanned it, he spotted many a phrase-"world depression," "storm brewing," "repeated shocks," "widespread ruin," "baneful effects," "lack of confidence" -which might have been lifted directly from his own campaign speeches. Without emphasizing the domestic poverty of Britain the note declared...
Paramount--"The Big Broadcast," a dreary parade of Radio's luminaries, who shine very dimly indeed on the screen. One "Bing" Crosby booms and sighs, one Kate Smith yearns audibly in song, one Stuart Erwin falls over things. A dire prophecy of television...
...looks childish to us, to say the least, and although the sentiments of the old lady appalled at the nature of American youth when "of such are Chicago gangsters"--is perhaps far fetched in the light of a very sudden spring day, still American youth must be in dire need of action or excitement or occupation or something if it can rouse itself to nothing better than an undisciplined orgy of useless pranks...