Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing I call the definite attention of the American people to those unwise parts of the bill . . . one of which may restore in the future certain forms of tax avoidance, and of concentrated investment power, which we had begun to end, and the other a definite abandonment of a principle of tax policy long ago accepted as part of our American system...
...Charles Kramer relieved his colleagues' tension for a moment by offering an amendment exempting child actors from the child labor provisions. Dubbed the Shirley Temple Amendment, it was promptly adopted. But the tension returned as the bill approached its real test, and then as the first fateful roll-call got under way, Congressmen realized that the debate had been much ado about nothing. The motion to recommit the bill was swamped, the motion to pass it carried...
Only five years ago Franklin Roosevelt called TVA "the widest experiment ever undertaken by a government." By last winter the experimenters chosen to do the job had become one of the President's worst headaches. Quarreling among the three TVA directors obliged him to call them to the White House to try their charges against one another. He was pained when Chairman Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, insisting that the trial would not be adequate, refused to discuss with the President his complaints against his co-directors, insisted on taking them to Congress (TIME, March 21). When the President dismissed...
Famed Burlesque Producer Harold Minsky planned a burlesque show of midgets. After looking over a crowd of job applicants in his Manhattan office, he decided to call it off. Said he: "Too gruesome...
This afternoon the Vagabond will visit the Coop--with a purpose. There he will purchase a flyswatter, mosquito netting, sticky paper, the most deadly exterminator, and the biggest Flit gun available. If that wasp or any more of the air corps drops in for a call tomorrow morning, they are going to catch a warm reception. The ground forces will be prepared...