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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this demonstration of liberals against him, Mr. Hughes joined the Court and within a year not only did the Court begin to function with new celerity, but there came a number of liberal decisions, several of them by 5-to-4, such as that against Minnesota's "press gag" law, with the new Chief Justice casting the decisive vote...
...sent his crop insurance committee's report to Congress with a temperate letter of recommendation. This newest New Deal plan to make life richer and safer for farmers differed from previous ones in that it was not to be launched on an imperial scale. Its authors proposed to begin with the 1938 wheat crop only, wait on time and experience before extending it to other staples...
...agreement stipulated: 1) the Union would call off the strike; 2) General Motors would recognize the Union as collective bargaining agent for its members; 3) both sides would behave peaceably- no coercion, no Union recruiting on company property, no more court action by the company; 4) both sides would begin negotiations this week on the grievances of the Union, and production would be resumed at once...
...that the long line of swaying cars functions properly. Higher cars have lately obstructed the view, forced brakemen to crane far out. Last week, on its ninetieth anniversary the 11,000-mi. Chicago, Milwaukee. St Paul & Pacific R. R. became the first in the U. S. to begin rebuilding all its 700 cabooses. The Milwaukee is cutting away the cupolas, installing baywindows on each side instead, so trainmen can loll on comfortable cushions while looking ahead. Caboose interiors are being renovated with seats replacing hard benches. The outsides are being painted a snappy black & aluminum...
What a Picasso abstraction is to a billboard, figure skating is to what most people do when they exercise on ice. Half sport, half art, it requires a course of training feasible only because figure skaters begin their vocation soon after leaving the cradle. When Robin Huntingdon Lee became U. S. champion at the age of 15, in 1935, he was no prodigy but a veteran of eight years' arduous training. Last week Robin Lee, Maribel Vinson, Erie Reiter and the rest of the small company of U. S. figure skating virtuosos were at Chicago to whirl, spin...