Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in New York, Pitcher Hubbell walked out to the pitcher's box to try to extend his string to 25 against the Brooklyn Dodgers, as a preface to receiving a prize for being the most valuable National League player of 1936. When the game ended, Pitcher Hubbell needed the prize for consolation. Aided by able pitching from towering Van Lingle Mungo, one of Hubbell's few real rivals, Brooklyn had knocked him out of the box in the fourth inning, beaten the Giants...
...time has arrived.'' the President said, "for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress. . . . One-third of our population," he echoed his old refrain, ". . . is ill-nourished, ill-clad, and ill-housed. The overwhelming majority of this nation has little patience with that small minority which vociferates today that prosperity has returned. . . . All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower. Government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor...
...Passed (67-to-2) a bill that would make the Civilian Conservation Corps a permanent organization and reduce the annual salary of Director Robert Fechner from $12,000 to $10,000, after voting down the bill passed by the House last fortnight that would extend the CCC for only two more years. Sent it to a Senate-House conference committee...
...White House offices when Valet McDuffie brought him Mr. Van Devanter's message. If he made a grimace, only Valet McDuffie knows. He called for a piece of paper and scribbled an answer. "May I as one who has had the privilege of knowing you for many years, extend to you every good wish. Before you leave Washington for the summer it would give me great personal pleasure if you would come in to see me"-polite, noncommittal, frigid. Unlike most similar letters, it was not addressed to "Dear Willis" but to "My dear Mr. Justice Van Devanter...
...basis of material gathered at such hearings as those of Paramount Publix, Celotex Co., Kreuger & Toll, the SEC wants to extend its power to: 1) assure selection of independent trustees in reorganizations; 2) vest in the SEC extraordinary authority over solicitations of proxies and over deposits and assets of protective committees; 3) allow the SEC to intervene in an advisory capacity when reorganizations are under the jurisdiction of the courts as in 776 cases. Some of the powers asked by the Commission are incorporated in bills introduced by Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Tennessee's Representative...