Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats have not is a Committee of 200 to draw up a Program. Organized last autumn to appease Mr. Hoover, whose scheme of a mid-term convention was declined, the Committee's sole act to date has been to elect University of Wisconsin's onetime President Glenn Frank chairman. Whether the Committee should be listed as an asset or a liability will presumably remain undecided until next winter when it releases its report-of which, to the party's practical politicians, the only real virtue appears to be the fact that it will not be released until...
...cause of this portentous prospect was a dispute as to whether an expired contract guaranteeing no wage reductions should be extended for three months or for one year as the union demanded. Early this week Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who knows how to remain calm under labor fire, deposited the contending parties in separate hotel rooms and, after seven consecutive hours of shuttling back & forth, the union agreed to call off the "revolution" in exchange for a four-month extension...
...seat of British statesmanship, has its fun at the expense of bench & bar, gives a friendly, honest picture of Scottish life. That the story is as purely Scottish as haggis or brose is the doing of Playwright Tames Bridie, who a year ago took a Highland fling at Bruno Frank's German Sturm im Wasserglas, turned it into a Barrie-like play...
...some months an important architectural exhibition has been circulating among U. S. colleges. Under the auspices of The American Russian Institute and such distinguished U. S. architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, William Lescaze, Joseph Hudnut, the exhibition illustrates the immense field of Soviet architecture and city planning. Last week, in Robinson Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, of which Joseph Hudnut is dean, the 47 panels of Soviet plans and photographs were standing a severe if mute criticism. Displayed in the centre of the hall were scale models of housing projects, factories and homes designed not by Russian...
...result of three years' investigation. They would still be the Commission's secret had not the Commission learned that communication circles had somehow "tapped its wires." Rather than give A. T. & T. a chance to prepare a counterpunch while FCC studied the report, lively little Chairman Frank R. McNinch decided to make Commissioner Walker's findings public at once. But he specifically told Congress that it "is not a report by the Commission, but is instead a report submitted to the Commission and is now being studied by the members of the Commission with a view...