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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 passed into U. S. history one January afternoon in 1936, when Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts began reading the majority Supreme Court decision in U. S. v. Butler et al., receivers of Hoosac Mills Corp. The AAA of 1938 has yet to reach the Supreme Court. But last week two of the men most prominently identified with it set out to argue its case before the tribunal of public opinion. One demanded an outright conviction for failure, the other appealed for a suspended sentence...
...School comedian started the evening going when he stepped to the platform and began to complain about his room in Hastings Hall. "I live at 51 Hastings," he said, "a room with adjoining towel. It's so small I have to go outside to change my mind, and, you know, we're so cramped that we've taught the dog to wag his tail up and down...
Next was a monologist who began with a hearty, "Hello, Mister Ginsburg!" and proceeded to tell of the exploits of his son, Jakie, a "football player at Yale." Mystifying magic followed when an undergraduate magician pulled five handkerchiefs out of an empty box and then abruptly told a member of the audience what card he was thinking...
...snapped unforgettable, revelatory pictures of commonplace and sub-commonplace scenes, from bare French cafe tables to Mexicans with their pants down. Closest to him among U. S. photographers is a 35-year-old ex-St. Louisan with an inquiring nose and an unobtrusive but exacting eye. Walker Evans began with simple equipment ten years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American Photographs, a book of 87 pictures by Evans, and honored him with its first...
Some clocks stopped for good; others with automatic starters, began an hour later. Although no complaints were voiced that the shut-off impeded late studying, many missed morning breakfast...