Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States Weather Bureau reports favorable conditions for weekend sports enthusiasts. Increasing cloudiness will settle over all New England with snow expected to fall over Northern sector today (Fri.) or tonight. The supply of snow around Boston which was heavily crusted last week may be covered with the same blanket of snow that skiers are waiting for up North. However, there is a chance that showers will make the prospects in the Southern part of New England gloomier. The temperature throughout the New England States will drop slightly, but will remain around the twenties during the nights. More snow will...
Mayor Hague expressing concern over the reports of "wholesale arrest and deportation. . . ." It looked, said the Congressmen, as if "officials of your administration acting under blanket orders" were denying labor its constitutional rights. Back to Montana's Congressman Jerry J. O'Connell, one of the signers and a personal friend of Boss Hague, went an answer the same...
...little fault was found with the general purpose of the legislation, most of the debate centered around the powers delegated to the Labor Standards Board. Amendments ranged from giving blanket powers to the board to regulating it by the narrowest of limitations...
...after his grandiose reception by Der Führer (TIME, Oct. 4, et seq.) was in an exalted mood last week. About the time the President was speaking in Chicago, the Dictator's Milan newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia was printing an editorial in which Mussolini hurled blanket defiance at "capitalism, parliamentary democracy, Communism, liberalism and a certain wavering Catholicism, with which we shall settle accounts in our own fashion some day or other, are against...
Katie Roche was a somewhat inauspicious choice for the opener. A thin play, its characterizations were so unclarified that even the expert Abbeyites seemed uncertain in them. Katie (Eileen Crowe), a young country girl born the wrong side of an aristocratic blanket, is an open-hearted flirt with illusions of grandeur. Rejecting Yokel Michael (Arthur Shields), she marries middleaged, blue-blooded Bachelor Stanislaus Gregg (F. J. McCormick). Crisis of this ill-matched marriage comes when Stanislaus finds artless Katie and naive Michael together, decides to transfer his wife permanently to the less tempting air of Dublin...