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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to Labor's opposition to the former Governor of Indiana because of his use of militia in strikes. The important thing, however, is not that Governor McNutt called out militia; many Governors do that. The important thing is that he invented a new form of executive tyranny; namely, the perpetuation of military law long after the emergency for which the troops were called out was over, and almost all of them had been sent home. This kind of law Governor McNutt maintained for at least two years in Sullivan County, Ind. and for some six to eight months...
...gave up. The Queen asked conservative Catholic Dr. Dionysius A. P. N. Koolen to see what he could do, but even his own party was lukewarm in its support. Last week it was Dr. Colijn's turn again, and he finally produced a Cabinet of hoary oldsters, former Cabinet members and long-pensioned colonial officials. The new Government represents but a small section of Parliament and could be overthrown any time the Socialists and Catholics vote together against it. After being without a Cabinet for a month, Dutchmen hope the opposition will exercise discretion until this summer...
Married. Adrianne Allen Massey, 32, British actress, and William Dwight Whitney, 39, Manhattan socialite lawyer; both for the second time, in Storrington, England. Fortnight ago Mrs. Whitney's former husband, Actor Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln in Illinois) married Mr. Whitney's former wife, Dorothy Ludington Whitney...
While gathering brushwood for a fire to keep off the packs of wild dogs that roam the former site of London, an archeologist of the Royal Society of Abyssinia found an ancient, 20th-century thermos bottle. In the bottle was the Hopkins Manuscript. Since the damp climate of the British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham...
...lowest possible cost. . . . The achievement of this end and the solution of the existing problems of competition lie in ... the coordinated use of the existing generatmg and transmission facilities of both " Two months ago the New York Power Authority (planning exploitation of the St Lawrence Waterway, very close to former governor Franklin Roosevelt's heart) made its annual report. In presenting a copy of their report to the President the Trustees noted that it "suggests a new line of approach to ... coordination of Government power enterprises with private power systems. ..." They thought it opportune" that their proposal for cooperation...