Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The White House made known last week Franklin Roosevelt's summer plans, a tentative schedule providing a mixture of politics and ceremony, family and fun. Next week he will attend the wedding of his son John at Nahant, Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first...
Once called a "pump-priming" measure, the bill had been given the horrid name of a "poll-priming'' device, because of WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins' pointed comment on the Iowa primary election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts...
A long-awaited Opposition demand for a public washing of Great Britain's air rearmament problems was beaten off last week as Prime Minister Chamberlain swung his Conservative M.P.s into line and downed a Labor motion for an inquiry, 329 votes to 144. Since many Conservatives had previously howled...
Welcoming the issue which his election underlined. Moderator Welch said: "The Kingdom of God would be greatly advanced by the union not only of Presbyterianism but of all evangelical bodies in this country. It should take place at once." A candidate for union which is both evangelical and Catholic is...
Homer's dogging muse is his blonde sweetheart, Fran, who "is sure I shall become a novelist of the Irving Bacheller type-which is exactly the goal at which I am aiming." When the next best-seller type appears, he aims at it ("I can learn much of style...