Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 passed into U. S. history one January afternoon in 1936, when Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts began reading the majority Supreme Court decision in U. S. v. Butler et al., receivers of Hoosac Mills Corp. The AAA of 1938 has yet to reach the Supreme Court. But last week two of the men most prominently identified with it set out to argue its case before the tribunal of public opinion. One demanded an outright conviction for failure, the other appealed for a suspended sentence...
...outlook against Cornell, all-American end Brud Holland et al, is rather glum. It is glum enough to realize that they soundly whipped a really topnotch Colgate team, glummer still when you realize that Cornell will outweigh Harvard 21 pounds to a man in the backfield. Still, Harvard is a better underdog than top-dog; that has been proved often...
...fiercely faithful and interminably delayed de luxe editions. Several magnificent portraits were included: of Moreau, Verlaine, Baudelaire. In the color etchings art followers found new, bright colors, strange to Rouault, as if medieval gaiety were entering his medieval gloom. But the most impressive etchings were a series, Miserere et Guerre, in which Rouault's myth-figures expressed the spiritual degradation and agony of War. Typical example: Homo Homini Lupus, "Man is a wolf...
...empowered: 1) to "review" the expulsions, decide whether they still think the ousted officers should be reinstated; 2) with Homer Martin and one other board member, to settle future disputes. This arrangement is to continue until next year, when at the union's biennial convention Messrs, Frankensteen, Mortimer, et al. will have a chance to complete the demolition of Homer Martin. C. I. O. having thus taken U. A. W. out of Homer Martin's hands, Murray & Hillman graciously announced that U. A. W. was still autonomous, promised to help eradicate "outside influences...
...stood on one political foot and then the other, kept the country on pins and needles till the last moment. The literary inheritors of this Border-State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture modeled on pre-Civil War agrarianism...