Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make benefit payments direct to farmers in connection with its soil conservation program. Under provisions of the Soil Conservation Act individual States would administer such Federal funds and make direct disbursements to farmers after next Dec. 31. Last week's bill, passed without a roll call under a suspension of House rules and sent to the Senate, was considered necessary by farm leaders because an insufficient number of States had set up legislative machinery to handle the funds...
...Year-and-a-half ago the Morgan Line held a shipwreck reunion in Manhattan aboard the repaired S. S. Dixie (TIME, Dec...
...punks (youthful perverts) and wolves (incorrigibles) in Chalked Out are definitely in the minority. In their clean, sturdy barracks most of the inmates and all of the guards behave a good deal like the amiable and manly V. M. I. officers and guards of Brother Rat (TIME, Dec. 28). But Frank Wilson (Charles Jordan) and Scappa (Maurice Burke) are nobody's angels. Frank has murdered a man in a stickup with a gun he got Johnny Stone (John Raby) to steal from his sister's sweetheart, a Holmes patrolman. Frank seems pretty smart to Johnny when he gets...
...early 1660s Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, bleary-eyed and improvident, set up his easel to paint Hendrickje Stoffels as Juno, swathing her in paste jewels and the rich worn old velvets he loved so well. As patrons of the current cinema Rembrandt will recall (TIME, Dec. 14), Hendrickje was his housekeeper and mistress. Rembrandt died a pauper, was forgotten for generations, was rediscovered and has now become among the highest priced and most frequently forged of all Old Masters. Last week it was made known that another Rembrandt, just discovered, had reached the U. S. Art critics put aside...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934) was one of the best-sellers of 1935, but Franz Werfel had written good books before that. Two of them (Class Reunion, The Man Who Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea...