Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected last November, was slated to be a Reform Congress. It met Jan. 5 with full steam and a clear track. By last week the Senate had averaged less than three hours' work per day, meeting on only about half the available days. The House had done little better. Between them they had passed just two major measures-the Neutrality and Guffey Coal Acts-and both were revampings of earlier statutes. Even in the matter of routine appropriations they had finished only four bills, with ten yet to go. Experienced observers were predicting last week that outside...
...talk strike. Asking nothing for themselves, the Guild's 1,100 high-salaried contract players were out to improve the lot of their 4,500 low-paid associates-extras and bit-players getting less than $250 per week. For them it demanded a union shop, steadier work and better working conditions, minimum pay upped from a current low of $3.20, abolition of the Call Bureau...
...they yielded to idealism, joined the League of Nations. That ideal was shattered when Germany marched into the Rhineland, when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. It was during Mussolini's African adventure that the famed Oslo group got down to business. The Scandinavian countries, headed by Sweden, decided they had better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time in the Swedish capital to discuss their ultimate aims-to get trade independence, to revert...
...idea of Charles Milton Tremaine, a little old man who makes no music but has been associated with it all his life. Mr. Tremaine got his start promoting pianolas for the Aeolian Co., later tried to make his own pianos, failed. In 1916, deciding he was a better promoter than manufacturer, Tremaine formed his still existing National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. Four years later he put on a celebration which he called New York Music Week. Other cities copied this week, and in 1924 they united for the first National Music Week. Each community celebration is fairly autonomous...
...should the U. S. try to rally other democracies? Why not let Europe severely alone? It cannot be done, says Editor Armstrong. U. S. sentiment is still strong for isolation, but it will have to learn better. "In a surge of reaction against all that they had been through in 1917-1918 the American people decided to learn nothing from that experience. . . . We are not yet in sight of the time when the great American public will see that there is one way, and one only, for them to make certain of not being involved in future world wars: that...