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...From the three-man band, the broadcast rapidly built up to 25 or 30 men a week; now boasts numerous guest stars, a white string ensemble, a colored quartet. Star of the Negro harmonizers, Lifer Joe Johnston introduces their numbers with homespun sermons; repents his past, bewails the future in haphazard doggerel. Sample...
Celebrated in Washington this week, by proclamation of Franklin Roosevelt following joint resolutions of the Senate and House, was the Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary of the U. S. patent system. The first patent act-passed by Congress on April 10, 1790 and signed by President George Washington-set up a three-man patent board: the Secretaries of War and State and the Attorney General. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was also keeper of records. His staff was a part-time clerk. An inventor himself (a mold board for plows, revolving chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that...
Curtain's Fall. In 1933 smart, aggressive Harvard-man Dave Lilienthal, who had been fighting the ogre of private ownership as a member of the Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...
...much money ($1,735,000,000) as Franklin Roosevelt asked for but switching $125,000,000 from WPA's share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted...
Fourteen of their amendments would all but abolish NLRB's powers of discretion, and substitute in effect a set of rules for the elastic administration provided when NLRA was passed in 1935. Another would abolish the three-man NLRB, replace it with a five-man Federal Labor Board whose membership possibly would be more to A. F. of L.'s liking...