Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popularity of the new deal was slow in striking Cambridge. The conservatism which has always marked student opinion here provided a Hoover landslide in 1932 when the country was ridding itself of the laissez-faire complex. Last winter, however, reactionaries dashed for cover as the high purposes of Mr. Roosevelt' and his program struck home. The CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll is testimony to the change...
...industrial union may be a better set-up for collective bargaining, but Messrs. Lewis and Howard had more practical considerations. Mr. Lewis, who heads A. F. of L.'s one big industrial union, wants to see the system fostered. Mr. Howard's typographical union used to cover the entire printing trade, and he would like to be boss of the pressmen, electrotypers, bookbinders, stereotypers, who seceded to their own craft unions...
...front cover) California is a phenomenon as well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest...
Immediate Epic. Left to his own poliical devices, Nominee Sinclair began a behind-the-hand campaign to assure his loyal following that EPIC was still there. He brought out another pamphlet called Immediate Epic. Still intact on the back cover was original EPIC...
...sectional patriots of perennially seceding Catalonia. Señor Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch for Lerroux. At week's end they had jailed Largo Caballero, silenced the rebels' guns everywhere except in the northern province of Asturias, where revolt traditionally dies hard...