Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long hot weeks of summer Franklin Roosevelt looked down his nose, disparaging the idea that he should campaign for reelection. When late in droughty August he began making "nonpolitical" campaign speeches newshawks plagued him with demands for the date of his first political speech. "About Jan. 4," he jibed. But last week when New England's birches were yellow, her maples orange, her oaks red, Franklin Roosevelt had lost his coyness about campaigning. He was out on the stump with other politicians, waving his hat at the electorate. His weekdays and nights were full of political speeches, bis Sundays...
...Deal campaigners have said a great deal in general about the blessings of the Government's Old-Age Pension Law, practically nothing in particular about the tax feature of that act. Beginning Jan. 1 a tax of 1% per year will be levied on the pay of every U. S. wage earner, great & small.* An equal amount will also be collected by the Treasury from the employer. Example: A factory superintendent 40 years old makes $3,000 per year; his annual tax to begin with will be $30 (1% of $3,000); the factory management must match...
...Baker for advice. Replied the onetime Secretary of War: "If your Board could find in Birmingham or elsewhere in Alabama, a lawyer of about 40, of known scholarship, who was willing to begin a new career. . . ." Preparing last week to take up his duties as Alabama's President Jan. 1, was just such a man, baldish, scholarly Lawyer Richard Clarke Foster, 41, of Tuscaloosa, fourth generation Alabama alumnus...
...years ago, on Stravinsky's last U. S. visit, a customs officer looked suspiciously over a bundle of his scores, asked in what language they were written (TIME. Jan. 14. 1935). Many U. S. concertgoers are just as confused when they hear Stravinsky's music. Others regard his trick harmonics as a glorious, artistic in novation. A few rank him and his old friend Painter Pablo Picasso, equally well-grounded in classicism and equally able to produce conventional art forms if he chose, as the 20th Century's greatest artistic jokesters...
...opinion there is great need for, and there does not exist, a well-written, factual, entertaining and impartial contemporary history -a history which takes up one year after another in volume after volume-each beginning with Jan. 1 and ending with Dec. 31, each written from the fresh viewpoint of the given year...