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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the New York Times, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week decided to renew his efforts to get Congress to pass his Reorganization Bill this session-on the theory that the results of the Florida primaries last fortnight would make it sure to pass. True or false, the report and the fact that it was generally credited were in themselves indications that the President was functioning in top form. Improved by: 1) his eight-day fishing trip, and 2) his confidence that Congress was again in a tractable frame of mind, he breezed through a week including everything from Hell...
...wanted to keep the Army's wings tied securely to the ground command. But the entente was not sufficiently strong to withstand a barrage of one-sided and slightly inaccurate publicity calculated to exalt airmen above groundmen. Having paid his respects to diplomacy, the General then proceeded to get on with...
...Lewis (and everybody else in the country) has lately watched circumstances affirm his conviction that President Martin would have to get tough or get out of U. A. W. A. A treasury depleted by unemployment and unpaid dues; a new outbreak of outlaw strikes in General Motors, several parts plants; the tactical weaknesses inherent for any union in a period of widespread layoffs; substantial concessions to management in contract renewals; a recent and violent intra-union factional flareup-all this impelled Mr. Martin to seek out unionism's new Great Father in Washington...
Vested with more authority than he has ever held before, given a mighty club over factionalists who a week previously had hoped to ease him out, confident Mr. Martin promptly began to squelch insubordinate subordinates, to assure automakers that neither they nor rambunctious unionists should expect to get away with anything. Meantime he had become deeper in Mr. Lewis' debt than any other big man in the labor movement...
...imitation of the Athenian theatre last night as the Poet's Theatre staged the "Alcestis" of Euripides. The performance was the world premiere of a new version of the classic by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald and it is too bad that last night it was not possible to get an accurate impression of the quality of their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity of the all-important diction being further obscured by the muffling of the words behind a heavy curtain. The action, though a trifle slow, went off with...