Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt addressed all the People in depressed April, he said he proposed to "sail, not drift." But not until Congress had rigged the ship of state for him and cleared the decks by going home, was Skipper Roosevelt free to kick the tiller over and square away. Last week that moment came, and with vigorous word and action Franklin Roosevelt made perfectly clear what course he had laid out: through the narrow Strait of Recovery, boldly past the storm-ridden Primary Isles, to the snug harbor of Fall Elections...
Test Pilot (Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy; TIME. April...
PROKOFIEFF: CONCERTO No. 2 IN G MINOR (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jascha Heifetz; Victor: 6 sides). Composer Prokofieff's expedition into the "deeper realms of music" (TIME, April 4) has turned up one of the finest contemporary concertos. Brilliantly performed...
...Franklin Roosevelt's last lecture on prices he remarked that a sharp increase in building costs last year nipped a promising building boom. Probably the most optimistic sign on the U. S. business horizon last week was the fact that building contracts in May were 27.5% over April 1938 and 16% over...
Primitive and scientific explanations aside, by last week 16,500 inhabitants of the northwestern mountains of India had died in a cholera epidemic. Frantic sanitarians had vaccinated 600,000 persons, doused thousands of wells with germicidal potassium permanganate to halt an epidemic which began the end of April. Nonetheless, the epidemic has spread northwesterly into Afghanistan...