Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served its purpose of keeping the Wagner Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill from reaching a vote -was the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, giving the Secretary of Agriculture power to set up crop quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, establish "ever-normal granaries by buying surpluses in fat years." Unfortunately for its proponents, when the Farm Bill which Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith's Agriculture Committee had been wrestling with for a week finally reached the floor, the tone of that body's proceedings was not greatly improved...
...Fat, boastful William Bioff, who lives at pseudo-swank Malibu Beach, drives a sleek Fierce-Arrow, frequents hotspots on his $110 a week, $12 a day expenses, bragged that I.A.T.S.E. had cost film producers $6,000,000 a year. Said Bioff: "Communist groups . . . are responsible for charges . . . under investigation here." The audience booed. "There they are," he said, "they're all Communists...
...decades U. S. school superintendents turned out overstuffed annual reports. Their tons of fat brown volumes, unread even by the teachers, gathered dust in official archives. Two years ago superintendents made two discoveries: 1) a report that the taxpayers liked would serve political uses, 2) everybody likes the picture of a child more than a statistical table. Result was an epidemic of school picture books that by last week had assumed the proportions of a national movement. Latest of these products to roll from the presses was Your Children and Their Schools, "an informal report to the patrons...
Last week in Pittsburgh this old battle was once more raging. Its centre was the person of the fat, gimlet-eyed, Carpathian-born bishop of the Carpatho-Russians, Rt. Rev. Basil Takach. Sent to the U. S. in 1924, Bishop Takach had won instant approval by ordaining married men to the priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more...
...While fat, young Vittorio Mussolini was getting a Bronx bird in Hollywood last month (TIME, Oct. 18) Rome was turning Hollywood Director Rouben Mamoulian into a lion. To Hollywood, II Duce's son was the unattractive symbol of a repressive political system. To Rome, Director Mamoulian, despite his Hollywood background, was an artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts...