Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predecessors having achieved Recovery and the New Deal being safely settled in power for another four years, the 75th Congress, elected last November, was slated to be a Reform Congress. It met Jan. 5 with full steam and a clear track. By last week the Senate had averaged less than three hours' work per day, meeting on only about half the available days. The House had done little better. Between them they had passed just two major measures-the Neutrality and Guffey Coal Acts-and both were revampings of earlier statutes. Even in the matter of routine appropriations they...
Into and out of Superior Court in Los Angeles last week moved an ugly squabble which has long rent the Angelus Temple of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson (TIME, Jan. 18). Moody Sister Aimee, beset by fears that people are trying to wrest control of the Temple from her, has succeeded in estranging her mother Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, her daughter Roberta
...which makes at least one part of every U. S. automobile (starters, four-wheel brakes, air brakes, carburetors, air horns), also makes precision instruments of many kinds for airplanes. Last January when the epidemic of airplane crashes focused attention on radio beams, direction finders, loop antennae, etc., etc. (TIME, Jan. 25), Vincent Bendix decided to capitalize on it by amalgamating his radio interests into Bendix Radio Corp., biggest concern of its kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro and took a three-year option on Teterboro Airport where he plans a $3,000,000 "aviation city...
Child of Trouble. The night Morris Watson was born his mother died, and his house burned down. That was in Joplin, Mo., Jan. 29, 1901. He ran away from home in 1915 having completed but one year of high school; 1916 found him a soldier in the U. S. Army on the Mexican Border. A year later he landed in France, a private in the 18th Infantry, 1st Division, A.E.F. Hotheaded, he was swapping punches with a sergeant inside a barracks room one day when another soldier entered, started helping the sergeant. Watson grabbed a chair and knocked the newcomer...
...only previous brush with the law occurred in 1931, when a Devonshire Court fined him ?5 for coining Lundy money in the form of 50,000 "puffins"' and "half puffins" bearing his own likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird," the parrot-beaked sea-puffin (TIME, Jan. 26, 1931). In his day of power, wealthy King Harman often proposed a London Curb Exchange to British financiers, who saw no earthly reason for it because the London Stock Exchange, unlike U. S. exchanges, deals in all securities, whether formally listed...