Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution provides that the House shall be altered to fit the population every ten years. Rural members of Congress, eyeing jealously the people's concentration in big cities, blocked the 1920 reapportionment and only authorized the 1930 change after a bitter struggle last year (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928 et seq.). It was voted to change the number of people whom one Congressman shall represent, not the number of Representatives (435) in Congress. The 1930 census revealed that this change must be from 211,000 persons per Congressman to 280,000. Unless the reapportionment struggle is reopened in the December...
...Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened to an oldtime frontier vigilance committee. A call was issued for complaints from racket victims. These poured in immediately, revealing gang levies on trucking, music, milk, funerals, laundries, freight, cleaning & dyeing, et...
...felt satisfied, even triumphant, because the Stabilization Corp. had at last stabilized something. The Chicago wheat price had stayed where the Farm Board thought it ought to, 18? to 20? above Winnipeg and other world markets. The Board had turned its dismal failure of last Winter (TIME, March 10 et seq.) into a signal success. Wan but glad Mr. Milnor told newsgatherers: "I know that not only in grain circles, among millers, bankers and businessmen, but in Washington, a new attitude toward this action has developed overnight. If the Farm Board never did another thing, it will have justified itself...
...Maeterlinck, 68, Belgian mystic, playwright, scientist, does not live in Belgium because he says Belgium does not approve of artists. In his villa near Nice he lives with his young second wife (he divorced Georgette LeBlanc in 1919). Other books: The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird, Pellcas et Melisande...
...manager of the New York Telegram, bought the four papers last year for $870,000 loaned them by I. P. & P. In return they gave the paper company their joint note, secured by the stock of the newspapers. But the certificates were not turned over (TIME, May 20, 1929 et seq.). Soon after the disclosure of I. P. & P.'s venture, Partners Hall and La Varre quarreled, and Partner Hall sought an injunction to restrain Partner La Varre from obtaining operating control. To protect himself, Hall had to go to the court of appeals for a decision declaring...