Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modified Court Bill, which was the ghost of the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court; a sugar-quota act which the President had promised to veto; and appropriations totaling $9,389,488,983, including $1,500,000,000 for relief. What Congress had not done was another story. Major Congressional Work Undone...
...Government employes occupy a more ticklish position than the seven members of the Federal Communications Commission, whose weightiest duty is to assign air channels and regulate their use by U. S. broadcasters. Last week President Roosevelt did to the Commission just twice as much as he had just done to the Supreme Court. He took advantage of two vacancies to appoint two new members who will bring it more into line with his own ideas...
...right be claimed in the dance steps of a ballet? Mr. Justice Luxmoore held that it could, especially since he learned that the design of a ballet, with its successions of pirouettes, entrechats and other steps, is commonly recorded on paper. In the case of the ballets Massine had done while in de Basil's employ (Les Présages, Chorearthim, Cimarosiana, Cantes Russes), de Basil was entitled to an option. Massine retained exclusive rights to the popular Three-Cornered Hat (music by de Falla), Beau Danube (Strauss), La Boutique Fantasque (Rossini), designed prior to the de Basil connection...
...speech in Parliament. During tests at Cardington, a 50,000-cu. ft. balloon broke away, and before snagging in a tree in Sudbury, drifted 60 miles trailing no less than 40,000 ft. of wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this 72-mile-long steel whip, less pleased perhaps by the premature revelation of its plans for an apron at an altitude above that at which any bomber in the world can now function...
...than foreign bottoms because of the higher wages of U. S. Labor. Astraddle this situation, which the Government has at last given full recognition after years of such temporizing as the mail subsidies, sits ruddy Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime stock speculator, cinemagnate and SEC chairman. What he has already done with his powers to subsidize shipbuilding and ship-operating and what he plans to do form the basis of FORTUNE'S many-sided treatise which includes...