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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also as an Andrew Jackson Democrat. Should he win under that label it might save for him his chairmanship of the Rules Committee which must otherwise be taken from him as an elected Republican. To oust him from that post was, in fact, the Purge's chief aim in his case. For the Rules Committee, with power of life & death over much legislation (unless by petition the House membership calls bills out of it to the floor), is now composed of ten Democrats, four Republicans. Of the Democrats, six were non-New Dealers until the defeat of Representative Driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gashouse Finale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...sharp turn in the road near his farm. He becomes the village's traffic policeman. The plot ends with a surprise staged by Farmer Banks at a Community Day in Centerville's new school. He gives the village part of his land for a swimming pool. Aim of Centerville's subtle propaganda: to wean the younger generation from rugged individualism to cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Child's Middletown | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Substantial justice" is the desideratum which the new rules (86 of them) aim to speed and attain. New in the U. S. (but familiar in England) is a provision for pre-trial hearings,† wherein a judge (who later is not the trial judge) calls before him the lawyers for both sides of a civil suit, determines with them the real issues involved, weeds out unessential witnesses, evidence and testimony, shortcuts the lawyers' technical maneuvers, (demurrers, motions to strike out, etc., etc.), thus saves time for the trial judge, jury and clients. The new rules also provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Substantial Justice | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...asks their resignations when, they marry or reach 25. Like all militant organizations, from the Jesuits to the Comintern, the Jocists put their leader ship through exhaustive training, holding a retreat-like congress once a year in Belgium. Canon Cardijn calls it "the Jocist Sacrament." For the aim of Jocism is peaceful revolution, a Christian upsurge in the ranks of labor, based not upon Marxian materialism but upon the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. Jocism in doctrinates its 500,000 youngsters with that Catholic dogma which many non-Catholics (and lapsed Catholics like Hitler and Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Jocism | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Variety gradually came home from its crusade, but fortnight ago the American Federation of Actors, setting out to unionize the 312 carnivals in the U. S., took up Variety's dusty cudgels. A.F.A.'s aim: to clean up carnivals first, sign them up second, get rid of such entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Sent to the Cleaners | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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