Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April there flared the Walsh-Sweezy dismissal. Resolving that political bias had no influence on the case, the Council claimed teaching versus research was the issue. The proposal of an examination of the primal problem of education showed that the Council was accepting its responsibilities to the hilt...
...Actors Guild got producers to meet its demands by a threat to join the strike of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts (painters, scene designers, hairdressers, make-up artists) which began April 30. By last week, Crafts pickets had been reduced from indignant lines to a single bored armband wearer at each studio gate. On the same day that the actors began working under their new scale, Federal Labor Conciliator Edward A. Fitzgerald arranged a compromise between leaders of the striking group and its rival, the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes. Basis of the Fitzgerald compromise was that scenic artists...
...readers' convenience the massive sheet had been printed in two sections, the first reaching subscribers last April, the second, last week. Explained lively Publisher Carl L. Estes: "The second annual East Texas edition of last year . . . received much praise and only one complaint: that it was 'too big.' One subscriber, who had spent years training his dog to bring in the paper from the front porch, irrevocably canceled his subscription, saying that in a vain attempt to make good on the enormous issue the dog had torn it to ribbons and then died of a broken heart...
...willing to give him $550,000. He was Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who two years ago was so shocked by his niece Lucille Norton's breakfast-table talk about communism that he not only withdrew her from the University but provoked a sensational legislative investigation (TIME, April 22, 1935). Of the resulting Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Study of American Institutions its donor observed: "If our students study and are acquainted with our own Bill of Rights, there is no danger that they will be led astray by foreign 'isms'-and that includes communism...
...much of a mystery as the scare last April were last week's gold-cut rumors. According to the New York World-Telegram the report originated inadvertently with a big Manhattan bank, which had bought $5,000,000 in gold to resell at a profit to the Treasury. Feeling that the price of sterling was high, the bank borrowed instead of buying the exchange with which to pay for the London gold. Meanwhile sterling went up, not down, and having been caught short, the bank hastily covered by dumping the gold. The fact that a U. S. bank...