Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal agents picked him up on a China-bound ship with 1,800 Ibs. of rocketry research. After a long series of deportation hearings, the Government admitted that there was nothing "secret" in Tsien's load but claimed that he had been a Communist Party member since the 1930s. After Tsien was sentenced to deportation as a Communist, the Government had second thoughts. It argued that he possessed valuable knowledge that, if carried abroad, would be "inimical to the best interests of the U.S." So he remained at Caltech until 1955. Allowed at last to leave, he returned...
...more friendly. Said one Coal-Steel official: "The Community is just going to crumble if the nations do go their separate ways and seek national solutions, but in two years the problem will only be worse when the national solutions haven't worked. The experiences of the 1930s prove that Europe is too small to try to export your problems to your neighbors...
...President did express gratification over one thing he had read: that the Republicans, in effect, were in favor of adopting his Social Security proposals this year rather than next, as the Administration had recommended. Not to be upstaged, Johnson recalled that the G.O.P. had opposed Social Security in the 1930s, added: "We welcome them to the vineyard. We're glad they have religion." In fact, said L.B.J., he was perfectly agreeable if Congress wanted to stay on to pass his proposals this session-a notion that Senate leaders of both parties quickly squelched...
...Clark's case, said Kenison, "our rule is preferable to that of Vermont. The automobile guest statutes were enacted in about half the states, in the 1920s and early 1930s, as a result of vigorous pressures by skillful proponents," meaning insurance companies...
...lesson, and even now its banking community is proud of its reputation as possibly the most cautious and conservative in the nation. It was therefore all the more shocking to Detroiters when last week the Public Bank of Detroit went insolvent in the biggest U.S. bank failure since the 1930s...