Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...55th birthday (Jan. 30), Franklin Roosevelt, who now hopes to visit Warm Springs in March, broadcast to his annual birthday balls in cities throughout the nation his thanks for the nation's response to 1) the Red Cross $10.000.000 flood relief fund, 2) the infantile paralysis benefit for which the balls are held...
Republicans, who wailed that the Roosevelt reform would freeze incumbent Democrats into their jobs for good, joined Democrats who felt as Oklahoma's Nichols did about losing their patronage. Defying the President, who had asked for the bill as first step in his great program of reorganization (TIME, Jan. 25), the rebellious bloc engineered amendments which emasculated it. As though to symbolize the anonymous standing votes by which this deed was accomplished, lights suddenly winked out, plunging the House into darkness. When light was restored and Administration leaders had forced a roll-call vote, the timid rebels shrank from...
...TIME, Jan. 22, 1934). The Navy's high command modestly waved aside the acclaim that followed this remarkable flight, said it was merely a rou tine transfer of men and equipment. Last week the Navy effected another "routine transfer of men and equipment," sur passed Squadron VP-10's mass-flight record...
...both non-strikers and strikers. Still grimly determined to evict sit-downers, however, G. M. renewed the court proceedings which it allowed to lapse when the Flint judge who had granted it an injunction was revealed to be the owner of $219,900 worth of G. M. stock (TIME, Jan...
...Realmleader's bigness this year was the recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation in May, told his constituents...