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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President arched an eyebrow. "About Jan. 4," said he, naming the date when Congress convenes...
Political machines are fueled by jobs, oiled by the hope of jobs to come. After four years of jobs to burn, the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. entered the 1936 campaign with a machine high-powered, smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
...receiving Young Republicans at a grand progressive jubilee in Topeka. Then the GOP high command met in Chicago, got Governor Land on the telephone, held long and earnest conversation. That night the Republican nominee abruptly canceled his Topeka jubilee, startled the nation with his most belligerent statement to date. "I am going to Maine," said he, "to help rededicate that State to the good government for which it has always stood and to participate in the first fighting repudiation at the polls of the kind of government this country has had for the last three years...
Between now and the date of the Crown Princess' marriage, probably in December, Juliana, 27, and Benno, 25, will busy themselves completing an economic study of The Netherlands on which they have been working in recent months. In the best sense of the term, Prince Bernhard is a first generation "mama's boy" and Crown Princess Juliana is a second generation "mama's girl," her mother Queen Wilhelmina having been reared and dominated by the late autocratic Queen Emma of The Netherlands (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Normal court usage would have been for the Crown Princess...
...this added up to a first-rate marine labor crisis on the West Coast which threatened to tighten rather than ease as Sept. 30 drew near. On that date expires the agreement reached after the 1934 general strike by the waterfront labor unions, notably Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Association, and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Negotiations on a contract to replace it found both sides in a thoroughly truculent mood last week. Debates were featured by such extreme proposals from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members...