Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Barkley waged the successful fight for Franklin Roosevelt against Joe Robinson's amendment to the Relief Bill (TIME, June...
...Civil Liberties Committee. As a sample of the Committee's work the shrewd little Wisconsin Progressive also sent the Senate a report on the Memorial Day massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom the La Follette Committee would blame- the Chicago police. Concluded the Committee...
...outlying boroughs chose as their candidate one of the most distinguished looking gentlemen in New York City, Grover Aloysius Whalen. His father was Mike Whalen, an Irish contractor who never got very far in the world, but who named his son Grover because the lad was born June 2, 1886, the day that one of New York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany...
Soon Nell came down with bags and her two dogs, Sweetpea and June. Then every-one knew she was planning to leave for good. The car roared off and stopped at Mars Turner's filling station at the edge of town. Pete Traxler was sitting in the driver's seat with two revolvers and Tindol was in back with two revolvers and a 30-30 Winchester. Just then Frank Dorris the town marshal drove by and Nell said, "There's the Law. You'd better duck." Pete, who acted drunk, roared with laughter and Mars Turner...
About 1,500,000 more cotton spindles were at work in the U. S. last month than in June 1936. No sudden rise, this activity was the latest stage in a cotton textile comeback slowly achieved in the face of competition from synthetics and from abroad. By the end of the month, according to the U. S. Census Bureau's report last week, U. S. cotton textile mills had absorbed 7,361,700 bales of the South's great cash crop, thereby establishing in eleven months an all-time record for domestic consumption during the twelve-month cotton...