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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When he reached his destination Congressman Mitchell said nothing of the incident and news of it did not leak out. Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after his stay at the spa. The facts that Chicago's Mitchell is the first Negro Democrat to sit in Congress and a New Dealer besides had all to do> with these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Jim Crow Suit | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Nebraska's legislators voted overwhelmingly last week against a return to the two-chamber system. Most of them are conservative, and no supporters of George Norris. They resolved against President Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan, rejected the Child Labor Amendment by 35-to-7. Outside of an unemployment compensation bill, they showed small concern for Labor and the masses-small political potatoes in agricultural Nebraska. But they extended the State mortgage moratorium law for two more years, kept in step with the New Deal march toward regulated business. Passed were bills laying down price-fixing "fair trade" rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: Unicameral Results | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...oldtime newshawk, was identified as a liberal and Mayor Shaw, a former grocery salesman, was known as a tried and true conservative, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. In Los Angeles, no one damned as a liberal can count on the all-powerful support of the Red-hating Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Column Campaign | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Nineteen other directors went out with him, and a new board of twelve was set up. consisting of six bankers, five actors and directors and a representative of Paul Joseph Goebbels' film chamber. In effect this meant that Propagandist Goebbels had gobbled the entire firm, for all the other directors were hand-picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: UFA Goebbeled | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...machine used to trap this elusive iota is known as a cloud chamber. Nothing new, this apparatus has been in use since 1910; it consists of a chamber containing a mixture of liquid and gas and several lead plates, through which the cosmic radiations pass--the gas is cooled, and produces a fog track along the path of ions formed by the charged corpuscles. This track of condensed vapor can be easily seen with the naked eye and also photographed, showing up as a bright streak on the film. Thus electrons, protons and the new particles, although far too infinitesimal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Physicists Trap New Cosmic Corpuscle in "Cloud Chamber"; Nameless, It Can Pierce 10 Cm. of Lead Plates | 5/12/1937 | See Source »

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