Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern Democrats, it was strong medicine when in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt wooed the Northern Black Belt as no Democrat had done in mortal memory. When he gave Negroes prominent seats at his inauguration, put them in bigger jobs than they ever held in a Democratic administration, Southern Democrats tried hard to swallow it as political expediency. Such demagogues as Georgia's Eugene Talmadge gagged for public edification when, during the 1936 campaign, Mrs. Roosevelt was photographed between two young Negro officers of the R.O.T.C. at Washington's Howard University. But in this year's primary fight, Demagogue...
When in need of more child workers than they have whelped themselves, tough Rumanian gypsies and hard-fisted peasants sometimes buy a "child slave" from professional kidnappers. Such a snatcher was feeble, wheezing Katinka Barbalate, 35, who was finally caught at lessy last week. Police nabbed her on a blanket charge of "kidnapping hundreds of children and selling them to gypsies and peasants...
Among the most fervent saviors of the Saugatuck is bushy-headed Composer Edwin Gerschefski, who lives with his wife at Meriden, Conn., hard by the threatened river. Broadcast last week on Conductor Howard Barlow's CBS "Everybody's Music" program was Composer Gerschefski's contribution to the great Connecticut cause: a "Save the Saugatuck" Symphony. Subtitles of the flashily orchestrated symphony's four rather noisy movements: 1) Natural Ruggedness; 2) Robot Controlled Precision without Escape; 3) Natural Flow; 4) Dynamite Accomplished Perversion and Artificiality of Every Description...
...National Resources Committee used figures compiled from a nationwide sampling by WPA through the bureaus of Home Economics and Labor Statistics. Between July 1935 and July 1936, some 300,000 families in 30 States (66 farm counties, 140 villages and 51 cities) were questioned. Correlated by a small, hard-working spinster named Dr. Hildegarde Kneeland, who was once a home economics teacher at the University of Missouri, has been with the National Resources Committee since 1935, results of the survey appeared last week in a slick, terse, 104-page brochure much of which made astonishing reading...
...prizefight without a referee. Said he: "In such a contest the man who puts on brass knuckles will win. This situation will not be solved by hanging mottoes of fair play on the four posts of the ring. . . . We should not blame great industrial organizers. In a hard-played game, an aggressive team will go as far as the imposition of penalties permits, or else it will lose to the team which does. . . . Today there are laws going in all sorts of directions which need to be reconciled. 'There are new problems which need more immediate attention. That...