Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called because the Kansas Constitution puts responsibility for public charity on counties, whereas the Federal Social Security Act requires administration by States. In a five-minute message Governor Landon pointed to Republican platform proposals for revising the New Deal social security system, asked the Legislature to project amendments broad enough to permit the State to cooperate in any system which "may ultimately become the settled law upon this question." This the Republican-controlled Legislature promptly...
...Ohio State's dusky Jesse Owens, in what would have seemed an incredible feat had not his own record in the past two years made it seem inevitable, won three events: 100 metres, 200 metres, broad jump. No one else qualified in more than two events...
Meanwhile Ethiopia's ousted Emperor had quietly entered the Assembly Hall in tropical white tunic and black cape, having checked his broad-brimmed hat outside. His Majesty, taking a seat in the fifth row, sat quietly through van Zeeland's reading of Il Duce's note. He also sat through a long speech by flowery Delegate José María Cantilo of Argentina, the country which had demanded that the Assembly meet on the Ethiopian Question. Harking back to President Hoover's meticulous
...Ohio State's bullet-legged Negro Jesse Owens equaled records in the 100-metre dash, the broad jump. ¶ Indiana University's slim, robot-running Donald Lash (TIME, June 22), having clinched a place on the U. S. Olympic team the evening before with a record-breaking 10,000-metre run, set still another in the 5,000-metre championship. ¶ The University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived...
...Portland's Municipal Auditorium NEA's retiring President Agnes Samuelson of Iowa picked up her gavel, banged it unceremoniously, keynoted: "Democracy must preserve education if education is to preserve democracy!" From that moment broad-beamed President Samuelson had to pound her gavel incessantly, finally smashed it, as the NEA party turned into a loud, nervous assault on the Association's two prime whipping boys...