Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This to the Government of Mexico was as good as a small loan. Last week, sipping grapejuice and fizz-water, Mexican friends of Dry Ambassador Daniels toasted a new era beginning Dec. 1, 1934, with the inauguration of His Excellency General Lázaro Cárdenas as the 45th President of the United States of Mexico. By an appropriate coincidence, grim General Cárdenas stands with genial Ambassador Daniels for grape juice and Prohibition...
Although in general no specific into in history may be said to mark the change to a now era, the hour of 1.00 o'clock on the morning of December 2, 1934, will be recorded as the exception to the rule, for at that precise minute tomorrow the "cut-over" to the dial system takes places in Cambridge...
Professor Palmer, last living philosopher of the William James and Royce era in Harvard history, was, for several years before his death, the oldest living Harvard professor, and his stooped figure and hesitating walk were familiar sights in the Yard. He was born on March 19, 1842, in Boston, and after attending Phillips Exeter Academy for two years, entered Harvard in 1860. After his graduation in 1864, he went to the Salem High School as under-master, but was forced to stop teaching after two years and travel for his health...
...industrial warfare, Colorado miners were then brooding another strike. The strike broke. Six workers were killed, 35 injured at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.'s Columbine mine. Instead of scuttling back to the peaceful East, Josephine Roche bought control of the company, set out to create "a new era in the industrial relations of Colorado." She invited the dreaded United Mine Workers of America to unionize her five mines. She made an oldtime labor leader her manager. She upped wages to $7 a day, highest in the State. She provided for arbitration of disputes, for better working conditions...
...National Coal Association convention in Washington last month, Miss Roche predicted the coming of a new era of security and well-being for workers throughout the land. Last fortnight President Roosevelt appointed her to his advisory council on legislation to that end-unemployment, old age, health insurance (see p.11). If & when those New Deal flowers blossom, they could logically be planted in the Treasury Department. And in or out of the Department it would be hard to find a more sympathetic, experienced and able gardener for them than Josephine Roche...