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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beside mob cheers and showers of torn paper, just two addenda to the history of the campaign of 1936. One was the emergence of the Social Security Act as a prime issue. Capitalizing their belated discovery that the 1% tax on wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...
Back at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week, to begin a tour which will take it to every one of the United States, was the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. For the first time in the U. S. the Monte Carlo dancers presented the great shocker of the great Diaghilev era: L'Après-midi d'un faune, designed and danced by Vaslav Nijinsky not long before he became so addlebrained that he was interned in a Swiss sanatorium. Last week handsome David Lichine impersonated the spotted faun, gyrating insidiously, blatantly suggesting, as did his predecessor...
...store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks to pick up or deliver freight free. There was no effective opposition to the plan. Last April the major Eastern roads started to follow suit. But on the day the new service was to begin, so loud were truckmen's howls that the I. C. C. hastily suspended permission (TIME, April...
...rent over weighting the scales in favor of labor, over the tax on corporation's profits, the Social Security Act, over the probability or actuality of vicious inflation. When this time comes, the Republicans must be prepared to assume the role of aggressive leadership. Therefore it is necessary to begin now, not a few months before Sovember, 1940, in the great task of rebuilding a party and taking up the gage of combat...
...woefully incomplete in the individual instance. Certain tendencies, and the inferences to be drawn therefrom mean, however, that the plan has been working with measurable success, sufficient, at least, to continue to accord it the highest hopes. Several more years will do much to stabilize the college record, then begin to demonstrate the record in the world. Then, and then only, will definite conclusions be warranted. Meanwhile the gradual fruition of this novel and daring educational conception can be watched with intense interest...