Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Frank Guggenheim's The Seven Skies) is also traceable to this versatile Putnam, who was among Amelia Earhart's backers and helped produce Wings, This venture into cinema led to the formation of Talking Picture Epics, Inc., George Palmer Putnam, vice president, producers of Com- modore George M. Dyott's Hunting Tigers in India, Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, Robert Cushman Murphy's Bottom of the World...
...mixed in political color and must, by implication, be regional and represent different groups of thought, which makes a picture puzzle to select." To the Senate last week as Federal Power Commissioner the President sent the nominations of: Claude L. Draper, chair-man of the Wyoming Public Utilities Com- mission; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, Engineer of the Port of New Orleans...
Strikes by Communists, or led by Com- munists, were Witness Wood's chief topic. He said the needletrade walkouts at Passaic, N. J. (TIME, March 15, 1926 et seq.), at New Bedford, Mass. (TIME, June 2, 1928), at Gastonia, N. C. (TIME, April 15, 1929 et seq.) were started by Reds who appealed to "parlor pinks" for "relief funds," but who disappeared when such money stopped coming in. He urged strict anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this...
...sacrilege occurred. The distracted Telegraph said: "One hopes they understand that the Mace in no sense represents the authority of the Crown. It is purely a parliamentary symbol representing the determination of the Speaker to uphold the liberties of Parliament and that is why when the House goes into com mittee and the Speaker leaves his chair the Mace is removed from the table and hung beneath it on hooks...
...come when a more scientific and businesslike method of tariff revision must be devised. Toward this the new flexible provision takes a long step. ... If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions should prove insufficient for effective action, I shall ask [Congress] for further authority for the [tariff] com-mission...