Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 1, your able book review editor passed up several fascinating books, chose for review a book about an erotic Russian musician whose chief claim to fame was he was homosexual. Yet on the same page was listed a book (but passed with scant attention) called Fifty Million Brothers by Reader's Digest's blue-pencil genius, Charles W. Ferguson. As a "Fergie" fan, I protest, not only at your slight to Fergie's book but your unfailing and sedulous attention to books with perversion themes...
...proposed that only 75% of each farmer's crop be insured. Individual premiums would be based on average yield, be assessed by a local committee. The farmer could pay several years' premiums out of one bumper crop, might pay and be paid in cash if he chose. But there would be no insurance against price drops. The committee thought a $100,000,000 appropriation would be enough to get the system going, with the Government (i.e., the general taxpayer) bearing administrative costs. Lest this seem a new and greater bounty to farmers, the committee pointed out that...
...primary election held yesterday in the Union, the Freshman Class chose six men as candidates for the final election to be held in the same place tomorrow afternoon...
...Italian, Luigi Beccali, Olympic 1,500-metre champion in 1932, chose not to run, wanting more time to train. The Hungarian, Miklos Szabo, who recently broke the world record for 2,000 metres, canceled his entry after he caught cold walking in Central Park. The identical twins, Blaine & Wayne Rideout, students from North Texas State Teachers College, did run, but fared badly...
...American Hebrew Congregations has had no president, the duties of that office having been capably handled by an executive board chairman. But with an increased sense of work to be done, perhaps even of Reform to be unReformed so that Jews may keep together, the Union last week chose a man of calibre to be its president: Robert Phillips Goldman, 46-year-old Cincinnati lawyer. Although he is a devout worshipper at the Cincinnati Temple named for the founder of U. S. Reform, Isaac Mayer Wise, Lawyer Goldman has devoted his career to Reform of another kind. An authority...