Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Labor, where he helped write the Social Security Act. Now these almost identical twins, self-consecrated to the cause of better government, are both in politics under opposite labels. In Middlesex County, in which one-quarter of Massachusetts' people live, a better element group, determined to oust Republican District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District (Boston's western outskirts, including Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley), the New Deal has given its blessing, although...
...their first palaces, only to move later to more fashionable fields. Socialite but steadfastly Edwardian, Mrs. Hailman dominates the city park system, has a tart tongue for politicians and a tender spot for fellow artists. Several months ago she commissioned young Pittsburgh Sculptor George M. Koren to do a group for her garden. Sculptor Koren produced three earth-spurning, wind-blown nudes symbolizing Pittsburgh's three rivers: the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio. To his delight Three Rivers won the $2,000 Prix de Rome in sculpture last spring...
...days before the Diaspora (the dispersal from Palestine), the Jews were a dancing people. As they wandered over the face of the earth they took up the dances of other nations, forgot their own. But one small group of about 3,000 Jews did not forget: the Yemenite Jews* who, driven from Jerusalem by the Roman conquerors in 132 A. D., settled in a corner of southwestern Arabia, where they have carried the traditions of Old Testament life down to the present...
From 26 daily newspapers in 1927, the Scripps-Howard chain today is down to 21. Sale of the Akron Times-Press means the dissolution of the third link in the Scripps-Howard chain in recent months. Six weeks ago, the ailing Buffalo Times was turned over to a local group headed by Editor George Lyon and Business Manager Earl L. Gaines. Month ago, the Toledo News-Bee, because of "greatly increased production costs," suspended publication, left the Toledo field to Paul Block's powerful evening Blade and unimportant morning Times...
Following the Roosevelt lead and splitting the nation's consumer incomes into thirds, Dr. Kneeland found that the 13,000,000 families and individuals in the lower third received under $780 a year, were not a distinct or unusual social group but included all types of consumers in all sorts of communities. Fully 70% of them were not getting any form of relief, although their average income was$471 a year. The middle third of 13,000,000 averaged $1,076; the top third, just under $3,000-but this was a meaningless figure because of the tremendous range...