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But Douglas kept at it. One day he turned up with a basketful of plastic edibles to make a compelling demonstration of just how little a relief family was getting. While he was addressing his colleagues, they stole the exhibit, sawed the pork chops in half, used the basket as...
From the time she was 16, and got her first real tennis instruction (from Bruce Ainley, pro at swank Town House), Pauline set the alarm clock for 5 a.m., took a basketful of balls to the practice court and worked on her strokes until it was time for school. At...
The "wildcat" Communist-run strike at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, Calif, was scarcely broken when a C.I.O. union (of die casters) walked out of the Cleveland plant of Aluminum Co. of America. The move, following the pattern at Inglewood, was in defiance of a Mediation Board request...
Into the Press last week President Roosevelt dumped a basketful of figures in the form of an off-schedule revision of the Federal budget for fiscal 1937 (June 30, 1936-June 30, 1937). Republicans and Democrats promptly began tossing billions at each other's heads in a fierce dispute...
Sirs: Esteemed William Esty Mydans, Ph.D., in TIME, June 1, cynically asks your authority for the statement that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." I am able to supply the information on the highest authority, namely, Fred Fletcher, tenant on my farm here. On the return of...