Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having recently returned from a fact-finding tour of Europe, having made four speeches in four cities in six weeks, last week busy Mr. Hoover stopped off at a grassroots Republican Convention in Oklahoma City to sum up his proposals for getting the country on the road toward a "system of free men and private enterprise." The steps...
...right to organize and bargain collectively. . . . Labor and capital can cooperate. . . " Thus the cagey councilmen affirmed a co-operative policy whereby A.F. of L. already had diddled C.I.O. out of many a bargaining contract, has also caused NLRB to declare in several cases that Federation-employer cooperation was in fact collusion intended to discourage workers' affiliations with more militant C.I.O. unions...
...Democratic candidate for Senator was complicated less by national than personal considerations. In 1936, Senator Peter Norbeck died just as Governor Tom Berry was rounding out his second term. Governor Berry might have liked to retire and move into the vacancy. But he was restrained by the fact that his lieutenant governor had just been indicted for embezzlement and might therefore have been ousted if he succeeded Berry as Governor, before he could appoint him (Berry) or anyone else to the Senate. Mr. Berry judiciously appointed Herbert Hitchcock, the State's Democratic Committee Chairman, who accepted though he modestly...
...Latin & Greek were staples of the U. S. high-school curriculum. Either because or in spite of that fact, the curriculum was under sharp attack. One of its severest critics, dynamic Dr. Abraham Flexner, then secretary of the Carnegie Foundation, got the Rockefeller General Education Board to start the Lincoln School, an experimental, "progressive" school. It was attached to Columbia University's Teachers College. Today Lincoln School has about 650 pupils in all grades from kindergarten through high school, is counted one of the leading progressive institutions in the U. S. The school has done many unorthodox things, such...
...twelve signs, should have musical ability. Libra's children are those born from September 24 to October 23. Looking up the birth dates of 1,498 musicians, Dr. Farnsworth found that fewer were born under this sign than under any other except Scorpio. Libra and Scorpio were in fact tied for last place as musician-makers. Thus in picking a musical sign the astrologists could have made ten better choices than Libra, could not have made a worse...