Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which it had subpoenaed for its airmail investigation, cited him for contempt. Itching for a fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days in jail, Lawyer Hogan appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which last month refused to void the sentence...
Dolefully Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, evangelist to whites and Negroes in New York's lusty Harlem (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933 et seq.), admitted: "No, I am not God, but millions of people think I am and I'd like them to believe...
...able to dissolve the difficulties of depression by a process of borrowing their way out. Our public debt of nearly 40 billion dollars--or one-fifth of the entire national wealth--should serve as a bracing tonic to even slow-witted treasury officials. Admittedly, the Administration is not entirely et blame as the recent survey report of the United States Conference of Mayors shows the distinct tendency of larging cities to pass their local relief burdens along to the federal government. Only five of the thirty-seven larger cities paid as much as one-third of their own relief bills...
Director Donald Randall Richberg of the National Emergency Council, who has found Hugh Samuel Johnson's Saturday Evening Post serial The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth much less offensive than he expected (TIME, Dec. 31, et seq.), told a Miami audience: "I question your interest even in the harrowing tale of the transition of the Blue Eagle from egg to egomania...
...Sequel to Philadelphia's orchestra upheaval came last week when Alfred Reginald Allen, a smart young advertising man of 29, was chosen to succeed Manager Arthur Judson (TIME, Oct. 29 et...