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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said North Carolina's Carter Warren: "Mr. Speaker, Harry is tired. He is 'wore out.' His feet hurt him. Now, you have got to come from my section or from Georgia or Mississippi to know what it means when an old colored man's feet begin to always hurt him." After a rousing demonstration that lasted a full minute, the House voted, 340-10-0, to create Harry janitor-emeritus of the Ways & Means Committee...
Under the terms of the Labor Pact, officially recognized last week by the Italian and German Governments, immediate exchange will begin between the two countries of workmen, labor leaders and foremen to mingle and study each other's methods. Italians will show off their nation-wide Dopolavoro ("After Work") organization with its traveling theatres, touring movie projection units and sport recreation centres of all sorts for Fascist workers. In Germany the similar organization has been copying the Italian model fast, outstripping it in the matter of proletarian pleasure cruise ships now slated to take the unprecedented number...
When School Superintendent Vernon Evans and Principal Carl A. W. Pierce sprang to Teacher Hallin's side, her father, C. Fred Hallin, recovered sufficiently from his illness to begin circulating a petition demanding her reinstatement. Snorted Father Hallin: "Isabelle had rehearsals here in the house because the school hall was too cold. But there were no drinks. I do all the drinking in this family." Also eager to support Teacher Hallin were the parents of students who had attended the rehearsals. Snapped Charles M. O'Connor: "Why didn't the school committee come to the parents? Instead...
...until he was past 70 did Anti-Feminist See begin to mellow. Last year one of his female cousins persuaded him to give a dinner for 15 leading Manhattan women, with the result that Mr. See announced his conversion, at least to the extent of approving women's colleges...
...declares Socialist Blum, need not wait for social revolution, can be won "simply through progress in ideas about morality." Veering even more sharply from orthodox Marxist sex doctrine is his belief that, since the "upper and middle classes" control public opinion and show the highest sex illiteracy, education must begin at the top. And of this group, since its men are already groping along the right track, "it is upon girls . . . that I rely for carrying out the reform which I suggest...