Archive for August, 2006

Bungalow Resources for Restorers or Builders

Bungalow means different things to different people so I’m not going to try and define it. Henry Saylor back in 1926 described the Bengalese bungalow from which the california bungalow was derived – “A low, rambling mass, with wide verandas, overhanging eaves, floors of stone or concrete and single-story construction, are the characteristics of the [...]

Lower Immigration Causes Labor Shortage

IN 1925 NEARLY 17,000 MORE COMMON LABORERS left the United States than came into the country during ten months’ operation of the new 2 per cent. quota immigration law, according to an analysis made by the National Industrial Conference Board, and a recent report of the immigration committee of the National Association of Manufacturers cites [...]

Immigration Stream Drying Up

FOR THE FIRST TIME in our immigration history we lost, in the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1925Â more unskilled workers than we gained. Six European countries failed to fill their allotted quotas, and sixteen received back from the United States more of their own nationals than emigrated to this country.
Is this striking evidence of [...]

Movie Star Salaries Reduced – 1927

CUTTING MOVIE SALARIES, perhaps 25 per cent., creates a universal sensation, because through the films everybody seems to be personally acquainted with movie stars.
Similar cuts in salaries of the officers of producing companies, say down to $150,000 a year for presidents, attract some- what less attention, altho that is part of the policy of retrenchment [...]

Racial Segregation Laws challenged – 1927

NO LAWS MAY PART WHITE AND BLACK – ALL segregation laws, keeping white people out of negro residence sections and negroes out of white sections, are unconstitutional, says the Supreme Court for the second time. Such laws violate the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing equal civil rights to persons of all races. Very well, comes the answer [...]

Mellon Tax Reduction Proposals 1927

Debate over the Mellon Tax Reduction Proposal of 1927
THE BATTLE FOR AND AGAINST heavy tax-reduction, which began November 2, when Secretary of the Treasury Mellon recommended a reduction not greater than $225,000,000, “will be between financial and corporation giants,” observes Robert Barry, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening World. Unlike the 1921, 1924, and [...]

More Millions for Better Roads – 1927

IT is “cheaper to have good roads” than to go without them, it has been stated in high official circles in Washington, and the Federal Government as well as States and subdivisions are now definitely committed to huge highway expenditures.
More than a billion and a half dollars was spent in this country last year on [...]

Dance Etiquette – 1921

Dancing is an art. More than that, it is a healthful art. In its graceful movements, cadenced rhythms, and expressive charms are evident the same beautiful emotions that are so eloquently expressed in music, sculpture, painting. And it is through these expressions of emotion, through this silent poetry of the body that dancing becomes a [...]

Fashion Tips for Woman Motorists – 1917

It is not easy to be decorative in your automobile now that the manufacturers are going in for gay colour schemes both in upholstery and outside painting.
A putty-coloured touring car lined with red leather is very stunning in itself, but the woman who would look well when sitting in it does not carelessly don any [...]

Jewelry as Decoration – 1917

The use of jewelry as colour and line has really nothing to do with its intrinsic worth.
Just as when furnishing a house, one selects pictures for certain rooms with regard to their decorative quality alone, their colour with relation to the colour scheme of the room (The Art of Interior Decoration), so jewels should be [...]