Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the Supreme Court of the U. S. found the Secretary of Agriculture guilty of error. The error: issuing a final rate order before the Kansas City sheep broker affected by it had a chance to question the Government conclusions...
...Britain which was signed to keep their three currencies level with each other (TIME, Oct. 5. 1936), Premier Daladier was able to announce devaluation of the franc over the radio and to tell Frenchmen that the pound and dollar would not be devalued to compete with the cut-rate French money he was about to offer...
...during the next couple of weeks is what Mr. McNinch says, if and when, as head of the President's interdepartmental Committee on Pan American broadcasting, he turns thumbs up or down on the Celler Bill's Government station. Since he has not pressed the radio time rate inquiry, and since he is not willing to make accusations against a radio monopoly until one is proved, there is a likelihood that Mr. McNinch will at any rate oppose the bill's domestic broadcasting provision. Hopefully the industry looks forward to Mr. McNinch's stringing along with...
Even more frustrating than the lamp corner in many department stores is the room where second-rate reproductions of third-rate paintings are customarily sold under the name of Art. In the last few years, however, stores have taken steps to make their art departments at least as interesting as their advertising, and last week in Manhattan the John Wanamaker store cut loose with nothing less than the second annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress. Wanamaker patrons in search of home furnishings were thus led to see some 235 examples of the livest professional work being done...
...best. Their prizes throw an effective smoke screen over the strong efforts in American writing, permitting persevering incompetents and academic rhymesters to practice their lack of art in the spotlight of public approval. It is true that they stir up public interest, but they focus its attention on second rate efforts and obscure the good. Better far that the prize money and attendant publicity be withheld on years in which there is nothing outstanding than that they be awarded to shallow and pretentious material. Unless men are selected to serve on the Committee who have the courage, energy, and above...