Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley's campaign for re-election against ambitious Governor "Happy" Chandler-it began last January with a testimonial banquet at which his supporters read a forthright letter of endorsement from the President-was proceeding with active White House support. It was indicated that the President himself might make a Barkley speech in Kentucky after attending the 75th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg...
Proudest achievement of the socialist-minded Mexican Government is its school system. In 1910 Mexico had only 600 State-supported schools and 70% of its citizens were illiterate. But the post-revolution constitution of 1917 decreed free, secular education for all. By 1921 President Obregón began to send missionaries into the rural districts to establish secular schools. A constitutional amendment in 1934 gave the Government control of all primary and secondary education, directed that it should be socialistic. Today, despite the bitter opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to the new educational plan, Mexico has some...
...crowd of divorcees, lawyers, barflies crowding into the gambling room. Manager R. I. Smith was trying out a new invention. An attendant hauled a shrinking mouse out of a coop, dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack of clubs. The croupier scooped up the chips, paid 50 to 1 on straight bets on the jack...
...filing the only suit now pending challenging the B. C. C.'s constitutionality, the Commission made grim-faced, 62-year-old Mr. Tetlow its official chairman. Coal miner's son, Percy Tetlow entered the mines himself at twelve, was a charter member of the United Mine Workers, began his career as a U. M. W. executive alongside William Green. When Percy Tetlow was fighting in the Argonne. his job was filled by none other than John L. Lewis. Now Miner Tetlow is Miner Lewis' right-hand man on the Coal Commission. Miner Tetlow's own right...
...five months the Texas Railroad Commission, which fixes Texas oil allowables, has been whittling away at the figures, in January began requiring all wells in Texas to shut down Sundays. Last week fearing that Mr. Boggs might be only the first firecracker in a package, the Texas Railroad Commission ordered all wells to shut down on both Saturdays and Sundays during the rest of May, which automatically cut proration figures 16%. Simultaneously the Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an emergency order cutting allowables for the rest of May 81,000 barrels daily to 405,000. Kansas set May daily allowables...