Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Hopkins is not blind to the sweet uses of WPA when political necessities arise. The coming national election will be his fourth as an insider, and Mr. Hopkins has had time to learn a lot at the knees of Franklin Roosevelt and Jim Farley. Evidence of his political maturity was that he did not stand in the way of special WPA pay raises so opportunely given in Kentucky and Oklahoma last month. In these two States the primary opponents of Senators Barkley and Elmer Thomas had pointed at local WPA wages lower than those paid in neighboring States, shaming...
...holiday for all commercial, industrial, governmental activity. Moved in the Cuban Senate by Liberal Senator Manuel Capestany was a proposal to confer upon Good Neighbor Roosevelt the title of "Eminent Citizen of America" in honor of his "historical role in the defense of democratic principles." For Cuba's Fourth there were fireworks, concerts, a banquet for U.S. Ambassador J. Butler Wright, a parade and a National Theatre mass meeting in honor of the U.S. attended by President Laredo Bru and Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Well might Cuba honor Eminent Citizen Roosevelt's Administration who in 1934 signed...
...Gellermann's thesis, buttressed by 280 pages of citations from the record, was: 1) the Legion enrolls less than one-fourth of the 4,000,000-odd U. S. World War veterans, 2) it is undemocratically controlled by a small hierarchy of officials, 3) Legion leaders "have come from a class in American society which has profited from existing social and economic arrangements," 4) chief activity of the Legion is fighting "subversive elements" and it has sponsored teaching of chauvinistic patriotism in the schools, 5) Capitalistic and militaristic, the Legion confuses "the middle class concerning its real interests...
...book. Last August he went into bankruptcy listing among liabilities of $4,907.39 a $1.48 laundry bill. Last January he went out of bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down...
Died. John Medill McCormick, 21, son of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick and Illinois' onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, grandson of Cleveland's late great politico Mark Hanna, nephew of Chicago Publishing Tycoon Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, fourth generation heir of the Patterson-McCormick newspaper empire (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News}; fortnight ago when he and 20-year-old Princeton Student Richard Whitmer fell from a 2,000-ft. cliff in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Searchers, directed by Mrs. Simms, took a week to find McCormick's body...