Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1930 a major obstacle to intelligent handling of relief and recovery has been the lack of accurate statistics on the number, occupations and geographical distribution of the unemployed. Before 1932 the Democrats lambasted President Hoover for this blind spot on the nation's No. 1 problem. Since 1932 the Republicans have not hesitated to point out that President Roosevelt has done no better than his predecessor in assembling facts and figures on the extent of joblessness. Last year the Administration got the House to appropriate $7,540,000 for hiring 105,000 canvassers to take a census...
...small number of pedestrians who are naturally adventurous may enjoy lurking behind oblong buses, preparatory to making a blind rush across the street. A few with truly pivotal necks may feel at ease when cars whisk by from all directions. It may even be asserted that Harvard Square training will make this college preeminent in the hundred-yard dash. But the great majority would be content to cross streets without risk to life and limb, and keep before them that great American possibility of becoming president...
...professor in the Ukraine invented an electric eye to enable the blind to read ordinary books. A photoelectric cell scans the letters, converts them into electric impulses which make a specially constructed desk vibrate. The sightless reader is expected to put his fingertips on the desk, translate the vibrations...
...hero of this picture when it starts. Presently, Joe Radek (Paul Muni) learns that he has been mistaken. A Pennsylvania coal miner with nothing on his mind except his girl Anna (Karen Morley), he is so dismayed when she runs off with a company policeman that he gets blind drunk and staggers into a meeting of his union. There a hired agitator, stoolpigeon for a racketeering labor organization whose scheme is to start the strikes that it gets paid to settle, is telling the miners that the heads of their union are double-crossing them. All this means...
...BLIND MEN CROSSING A BRIDGE-Susan Miles-Stokes ($2.50). An ambitious novel (14 years in the writing) about beauty, innocence, truth and other abstract virtues masquerading as 19th Century English characters. Dedicated to Katherine Mansfield, founded on Thomas Hardy. George Meredith and Emily Bronte, it has the flavor of a book cast up from an earlier...