Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Dick Kleberg was nominated for the Roosevelt Purge list this year he did not make it, partly because in the 14th District it would be hard to purge a King-Kleberg, partly be cause in Washington Rancher Kleberg has not sought to assert his birthright of leadership. Consensus: a conscientious, well-intentioned Congressman less unusual and less frigid than he looks, more independent than some of his colleagues because he is less ambitious and his interests are more special...
...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
...thoroughly-schooled Harbus men find positions in big or little industries? Lombard admitted that it was hard to draw the line but estimated a 50-50 division. Students going into big business probably won't stay there, either finding now affiliations or starting out for themselves...
...thing is certain--having a girl up to a game involves a large expenditure of a student's hard-earned allowance, and frequently creates apparently insoluble problems of budget-balancing after the dream girl has gone home again. But one undergraduate, foreseeing late-October bankruptcy, has utilized a plan of financing the weekend which combines the blind devotion of the days of chivalry with the materialism of this streamlined...
...Among critics it was a popular award. Long regarded as one of the most profound followers of Cézanne, 60-year-old Karl Hofer was a venerated teacher at the Berlin Academy until the Nazis ousted him. Grim, uneasy and intense as his great French master, he works hard by turns in Switzerland and in a sleazy Berlin studio. Last summer he told one of his friends he thought he was "at last beginning to do something...