Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Recovery Act expires next June it should be renewed for one year only on a limited basis. Continuation of codes should be voluntary; minimum wages, maximum hours and prohibition of child labor should be a parf of all codes; Section 7(a) should be amended so as not to force a closed shop on any industry; price fixing should be limited to the prevention of "price demoralization''; no industry not in interstate commerce should be codified: the Government should not require compliance certificates or discriminate against any firm until it is judicially adjudged a code violator...
Scene. Flemington is the seat of Hunterdon County, on New Jersey's western border. A meticulously neat, elm-shaded town of nearly 3,000, it serves as a trading centre for a rich old agricultural community. About ten miles to the southeast is Sourland Mountain, where the child was kidnapped...
Born. To Vice President Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century Pictures and Virginia Fox Zanuck, onetime cinemactress; a son, their third child; in Hollywood. Name: Richard Frederick. Weight...
Edgar Poe (1809-1849) was born in Boston, the second child of second-rate strolling players. His elder brother, William Henry Leonard, died at 24 of tuberculosis aggravated by drink; his sister Rosalie never developed mentally after adolescence. Edgar's mother died in Richmond, Va. when he was three, and he and his infant sister were adopted (though never legally) by kind-hearted Richmond families. Poe adored his foster-mother, Mrs. Allan, but never got along with his "Pa." Though he was brought up as a little Virginia gentleman, he soon ceased to conform. Tragedy visited him early and often...
...rarely as Shelley's Spirit of Delight comes a first-rate children's book. Mary Poppins will not qualify for this category, for Publishers Reynal & Hitchcock announce that it is not a juvenile; it is a story written ostensibly for children but with sentimental implications no child could grasp. Reminiscent of A. A. Milne, Peter Pan, Sruwelpeter, et al., Mary Pop- pins is far above the low average of modern fairy stories, will delight readers who have been badly brought up in the matter of children's classics. But it is not another Alice in Wonderland. Mary...