Word: helpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account to three times the maximum yearly benefit payments expected in the next five years. The conferees on the bill finally killed the most controversial amendment, a proposal by Texas' Tom Connally that the Government match the States two dollars for one up to $15, an attempt to help poor States live up to pension promises...
...Alvin Mansfield Owsley of Dallas, Tex., onetime (1922-23) National Commander of the American Legion, resigned last week as Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark & Iceland "for personal reasons." Reason construed by other friends of John Nance Garner: to help the Stop-Roosevelt movement...
Says a letter from Publisher Hoffmann: "The sole aim of News From Germany is to further a better understanding of the aspirations, the achievements, and the spirit of Germany; which, I am convinced, will serve the cause of world peace. The receipt of unbiased and accurate information will help readers to form just opinions." But Publisher Hoffmann's information is hardly unbiased or accurate, nor has it the humor, conscious and unconscious, that Commander King-Hall's news-letter has. Sample headlines...
...Kiplingesque empire builder is Englishman Clement Egerton. With anthropology as his excuse, he went to the French Cameroons not to help bear the white man's burden but as a holiday from civilization. His native interpreter had previously worked for a professional scientist, who used a tape measure on everything from a native king's wives to his pots & pans. In African Majesty Amateur Egerton uses no such tape measure, but seldom fails to be readable...
...Just what effect the recently adopted code for broadcasters will have on Father Coughlin cannot be foretold. . . . I dislike censorship in any form, but even censorship might not be too high a price to pay if it will help insulate us against the anti-Semitic oratory of the radio priest out in Royal Oak, Mich...