Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either independent or puzzling. He has voted against such New Deal measures as gold devaluation, NIRA, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, TVA, AAA (both 1935 and 1938), Soil Conservation, the Guffey Coal Act, Wages & Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests of Roosevelt liberalism, Reorganization and the Supreme Court Bill, which Bulkley defended over a nation-wide radio hookup. For this service he received a brief Presidential endorsement in his primary campaign: Franklin Roosevelt spoke of him as "toiling...
...Madison, Wis., a hurriedly called caucus of State Democratic leaders chose State Senator Harry Bolens of Port Washington, Wis. to be their candidate for Governor. Reason: their primary-chosen nominee, Robert K. Henry, withdrew last fortnight hoping to help his Republican rival beat Progressive Governor Philip La Follette, who has been elected twice in three-cornered races...
...Still and Dawson, when his sombre, ably orchestrated composition American Sampler was broadcast over the Columbia network by Conductor Howard Barlow. Last week, at the annual six-day Music Festival at Worcester, Mass., Composer Dett made musical news again. For the festival's opening program Conductor Albert Stoessel chose Dett's massive, spiritual-born oratorio The Ordering of Moses. Previously performed in Cincinnati and Manhattan, this tempestuous choral and orchestral work, based on Exodus, came near being the hit of Worcester's festival...
Captain Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, U. S. World War "Ace of Aces," named "the greatest living human being." His choice (for averting another World War): Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile, Princeton University's 674 freshmen, by a one-vote margin over Adolf Hitler, chose the same man for the same title...
...descriptions of Boulder Dam and Bonneville Flats, the U. S. national anthem (La Bannière Par-semèe d'Etoiles}. Three broadcasts are devoted to New York City, describing everything from Harlem's dance halls to Wall Street ("la maison Morgan, voilá guelque chose...