Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finished only four bills, with ten yet to go. Experienced observers were predicting last week that outside of the necessary money bills and some decision on Court rejuvenation, all the rest of the major constructive measures set for action this session-wage & hour regulation, low-cost housing, executive reorganization, crop insurance, lessening of farm tenancy, and many others- would either go by the board or be whipped through in slapdash form at session's end. The causes of the stall were clear: the legislative machine had been jammed by President Roosevelt's Supreme Court monkey wrench, gummed...
...Kentucky Derby is not quite the best horse race in the U. S., it is certainly close to it. This week's field represents the cream of the whole U. S. crop of last year's two-year-olds. Grouped together as favorites at odds of 4-10-1 until last week were Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Brooklyn, Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral. Jerome H. Louchheirn's Pompoon (clockwise from upper left on TIME'S front cover). Last week the group suddenly dispersed. At Lexington...
...British called the Conference with the hope of stabilizing the world market and relieving them of onerous subsidies to Empire sugar growers, not old Mr. MacDonald, but Special Ambassador Davis steered the meeting off political shoals. While the Big Powers were easily won over to the idea of crop restriction along AAA lines, Mr. Davis and a special committee interviewed delegations representing sugar exporting countries one after another, day after day, for nearly a month...
With the cream of its Coronation passenger crop aboard the Queen Mary, Cunard White Star acted quickly. A telephone call to Montreal, and Independent Union longshoremen were shooed off the Alaunia and the Andania loading there. Mr. Ryan called off his strike and within a few minutes 1,800 happy travelers were bound for the Coronation. Within two hours Independent Union men were back at work on the Alaunia and Andania, and I.L.A. was again out on strike in Manhattan. A serious strike was threatened with Cunard White Star (and also Furness-Withy Lines) caught between the millstones of warring...
...throne, 11; at Windsor Castle. Celebration : a Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck film show in the throne room. Gifts: from "Uncle David," the Duke of Windsor, a wrist watch and tennis racquet; from King George VI, a white pony named Snowball; from Queen Elizabeth, a saddle, harness and crop; from younger sister Princess Margaret Rose, a handbag with silver fittings; from Grandmother Queen Mary, doll furniture. Royal family rules forbid accepting personal presents from the public...