Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program started operation. But for old folks, Social Security, which will not begin paying monthly old-age insurance benefits for those over 65 until 1942, is still pie in the sky. The business of the witnesses before the Doughton committee was to show how the pie could be brought down within reach without wrecking the nation's economic structure...
...investigated by a grand jury. Federal agents subpoenaed Judge Thomas to appear with his books and papers but failed to catch him with the summons before he sailed for Panama on the S. S. Santa Barbara. A radio to the captain to put Judge Thomas off with the pilot brought the message: "JUDGE CONTINUING TRIP...
...Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...
...popular standards, and by her own, Edna Ferber has been a roaring success. Not only have her fiction and plays made her rich, they have brought her public honors: a Pulitzer Prize, an honorary degree from Columbia University, an invitation to the White House...
...teachers must be taught to teach in this manner, the fact must be recognized. It must be recognized by the arts and sciences faculties, for it is only by their cooperation that the training can be brought about. Harvard has to an extent recognized it in the Board for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, composed jointly of professors in Arts and Sciences and professors of Education. Candidates for the degree become proficient in their chosen subject under the former, and study the science of teaching under the latter. But a greater degree of cooperation is necessary...