Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These phrases describe the actual situation in Russia, not in Chile. In Chile, a land as long and slim as a string bean, the resources do not exist to defy World Capitalism. No battle fleet could seriously menace the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which sprawls over one-sixth of the earth, but a second-rate navy prowling up & down the Chilean coast could pulverize every city, town and hamlet...
...there raced through last-minute measures passed before noon on March 4. President Hoover signed a minor claim bill on March 5, 1931. The Supreme Court held this perfectly legal, ruling that a President has ten days in which to act on legislation after a Congress ceases to exist, just as he has after an adjournment...
...completed a five-year trial period in administering the Harmon Awards for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes. Working with a small budget ($20,000 this year) it is in contact with some 80 Race Relations groups throughout the land, hopes to see one in every community where race problems exist.* During the past year the Commission has found, to its vexation, much discrimination in unemployment relief. Says the report: "The crucial situation between whites and Negroes was dramatically impressed upon America last year by the flare-up of lynching...
...Heard and adopted unanimously an innocuous report of the Committee on Social and Industrial Relations. Deleted before the report was read were items favoring State compulsory unemployment insurance, large-scale economic and social planning, and recognition that three possibilities exist for Church and Nation: 1) present individualism, 2) some form of socialism, or 3) planned production...
Huddle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) contains precisely the amount of theatricals that a college cinema apparently needs in order to exist. But it contains no cinematic collegiates. It is lent unusual authenticity because all the scenes were taken on the Yale campus, because more than the expected number of actual football shots are shown, and because the hero, who is no gentleman, only ties the score in the final game with Harvard...