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Taking courage, she began, with the sober relish of childhood, to empty her raised skirt of rich, crumbling cake. Then she paused, frowning uneasily. Should she have stolen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...child lay back, munching the cake philosophically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...Ickes bustled into the White House office with jaw set, brow beetling. He had had a most disturbing experience at the breakfast table: his morning paper had announced that Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was going to cut the New Deal's newest, biggest and most expensive cake, the $4,880,000,000 Work Relief Bill. What did that announcement mean? the irate Cabinet officer demanded of sleepy-eyed Presidential Secretary Early. Had the President gone back on his promise that he, Harold Ickes, was to subdivide the funds allotted to public works under the new bill? He wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Dreamland | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...scales based on merit or length of service), the disagreement originated in Uneeda's Philadelphia plant last January with the workers also charging breach of contract. President Calvin's 3,000 Manhattan workers struck sympathetically, followed by truck drivers. Within a few days the Newark, N. J. Cake Bakery, the Atlanta Bakery and the York, Pa. Pretzel Factory suffered walkouts. Director Ogden Mills's house at No. 2 East 69th Street was picketed.* Currently both sides are accusing each other of thuggery, intimidation and general foul play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strike Bakers | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobody Intervened | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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