Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end no one in authority would predict what might happen next. It seemed unlikely management would still insist on the December 1 cut; but if it should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...
...most men. They deal with war, and usually with the vanquished; with violence, and usually with those who suffer by it. To many a reader, as a result, they seem as lurid and shocking as a street accident. This criticism Malraux answers by pointing out that these accidents do happen, that in our own time they are everyday occurrences, that he is reporting the bloody legends of the modern world out of which, he hopes and believes, the golden legends will some day come...
...Doesn't anything ever happen around here?" queried "Sis," a baby-blue-eyed blonde with a delightful Southern accent. When informed of the riots, Plan E controversy, and Hicks scandal, she squealed, "Oh, let's go to a riot...
Last year White House newshounds took Franklin Roosevelt to task for granting New York Timesman Arthur Krock an exclusive interview. Meekly the President put his "head on the block," promised it wouldn't happen again. Last week the Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick again broke into the White House manger, carried off another exclusive interview running to three and a half Sunday Magazine pages. Growled Earl Godwin, president of the White House Correspondents' Association: "I wonder how many necks the President...
...America could and quite possibly will go Fascist; it could happen in five year," George S. Pettee '26, instructor in Government, told 100 "prosecuting attorney's at the second in a series of forums sponsored by the Council of Government Concentrators in Kirkland House last night...