Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made peace without gaining its major point, a written contract with General Motors. *The argument: Depressions interfere with interstate commerce; depressions occur and are aggravated because workers have not enough purchasing power; workers lack purchasing power because they have not enough bargaining power to get high wages: the Wagner Hill will give it to them. Also: Strikes interfere with interstate commerce: some strikes result from refusal of employers to bargain with their employes: the Wagner Bill will make them bargain...
Early in the Depression, dapper, white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., and his wife, who was Opera Singer Anna Case, closed their 50-servant "Harbor Hill" mansion on Long Island, ousted their superintendent from his snug, white lodge on the grounds, moved into the lodge. Last week the Mackays prepared to move back to "Harbor Hill." For the present they will open only the south side of the mansion, keep a skeleton staff...
Today, with the Blue Eagle and the rest of the Roosevelt program, looking more fit for the Walter Reed Hospital than Capitol Hill, the truth of Mayor LaGuardia's blunt challenge makes itself felt more strongly than ever. With the cheery prospect before it, that if the Senate doesn't strangle it the Supreme Court will, the formerly tempestuous bird is flapping his wings in increasing futility. Yet most liberal thinkers would hate to see the Roosevelt program scrapped in its entirety, no matter how many stones have been thrown at various parts of it. As Mark Sullivan has pointed...
Renouf Russell, of Chestnut Hill has been named head usher for the Freshman Jubilee on Friday evening, John H. Gardiner, chairman of the committee announced yesterday...
Obeying strict orders, they flew slowly. The planes spent the night at Marseille, then took six hours to fly to Rome. Fascist air officials were waiting for General Denain, rushed him to a natural amphitheatre on the Pincian hill where Il Duce was scowling paternally at a socialite horse show...