Word: harlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Federal wage-hour law, guaranteeing minimum wages and a maximum work week to millions of workers, and outlawing child labor in interstate commerce. The decision, read with great satisfaction by jowly, wise, old Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, specifically overruled the Court's 23-year-old Hammer v. Dagenhart decision, regarded by liberals as the farthest north in reaction. With this legal victory the New Deal was finally legitimized, its last major social reform riveted into place...
...Some 30,000 confidential documents of the Civil Service Commission, chiefly personnel information, had been systematically looted by Harlan G. Crandall, 29, Commission employe, and turned over (for a fee) to two unnamed former Germans, now naturalized U. S. citizens...
...like hell. Reverse in Keepin' Myself For You, and makes good dancing...Count Basic cuts two sides of fast blues entitled The World Is Mad (OKEH), and stars the tenor sax of Lester Young, who plays some almost unbelievable jazz. Jo Jones and the rhythm section are exceptionally good...Harlan Leonard and his Kansas City Rockets show a lot of clean ensemble polish on A-La-Bridges (OKEH), a slow tune featuring a long tenor chorus. It's typical colored orchestration, not unlike Lunceford, though a little less elaborate...
...Indiana, and Harold Stassen, "the Governor of the 'German' State of the Union-Minnesota." Elwood. Ind.. Willkie's birthplace, the statement went on, barred Negroes as residents, put up signs warning: "Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You". The document quoted Harlan Miller, columnist on the Boston Traveler, as saying that Willkie's favorite crack under emotional stress was: "You can't do this to me-I am a white...
Last week such scenes were becoming possible. For stone slabs bearing dinosaur tracks are actually on the U. S. market. The Nash brothers (George Harlan, 28, and Carlton Snell, 26) of South Hadley, Mass. sell their Triassic wares not only to museums and universities, but also to strong-minded householders. Prices range from $4 to $30 or $40 per track, depending on size and depth...