Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1867:--to George W. Farwell '41 of Seattle, Washington and David H. Mitchell, of Campbellsville, Kentucky...
...employers and the Labor Front. The fare to approved passengers will be as little as $30 per trip. Closing the launching ceremonies, Orator Hitler, looking meaningly at a big delegation of voters from Germany's newest province, Austria, cried: "What formerly was available only to a small privileged class we shall make available...
...last week the Association of American Railroads announced that Class 1 railroads had an operating deficit in February for the first time in 17 years- $2,136,481, against a net operating income of'$38,792,779 in February 1937 and $58,367,529 in February 1930. Two days later Franklin Roosevelt told a press conference at Warm Springs, Ga. that the special railroad report of ICCommissioners Splawn, Eastman & Mahaffie, given to him fortnight ago, would not be made public until after he had conferred in Washington this week with a group of operating railroaders. Then, said the President...
Nearly 20 years ago Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and a score of lesser authors made their reputations by dramatizing the deadly influence of Main Street's narrow, inhibited middle-class culture. What has been happening on Main Street in the last hardbreathing decade of boom and depression? The single serious attempt to find out has been Robert & Helen Lynd's brilliant sociological study, Middle town in Transition (TIME, April 19). On the surface, reported the Lynds, the cultural pattern of Main Street in 1935 appeared to be intact. But the pattern showed significant new bulges...
...From James Bryce to Charles A. Beard historians have puzzled over this phenomenon, asking almost as many questions as they have answered. How did it happen, for example, that the parties in the U. S., unlike those of the European democracies, were not identified with a particular section or class? How was it possible, Bryce wanted to know, for two great nationwide organizations to fight as bitterly as did the Republicans & Democrats over the Hayes-Tilden election, without plunging the country into civil...