Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complaints received since Wages & Hours went into effect last October 24, Elmer Andrews' staff last week had sifted 2,800 which deserved further investigation and possibly prosecution. But U. S. business need expect no crackdown performance akin to General Hugh Johnson's NRA siege. Gentle Elmer Andrews hardly knows how to bellow and doubts that he will ever need to know...
Memorable for Harry Hopkins' speech in Iowa, which may help decide the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 (see p. 11), last week was also punctuated by a speech from the leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey...
...French-British recognition of General Franco's Spain left only a handful of nations still recognizing the Loyalists, chief among which were Soviet Russia, China, Mexico, Cuba, the U. S. With the probable exception of the Soviet Union, they too were expected to change over promptly...
...flattering requests from France and Britain that the Generalissimo declare a general amnesty; and to French and British hopes that Spain would remain "independent," Francisco Franco snapped: "The admiration for me expressed by neighboring democracies today leaves me as indifferent as the abuse they heaped on me yesterday...
...they have usually done when glory was being dished out, his Italian "volunteers" again got away with the biggest helping. At the head of the parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...