Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this backhanded admission, the key log was removed from the jam that had kept Congress tied up since February. Several weeks ago, Congressional leaders recognized that it would be impossible to pass the bill for six new Supreme Court Justices, but the President refused to believe them. They gave out hints of compromise; Franklin Roosevelt refused to bat an eye. They deliberately delayed action on the bill hoping he would see his mistake. Finally, giving up hope of changing him, they began to plan on letting the Court bill die without action. When this was reported in the press...
...Governor Earle, whose personal share of the country's un-redistributed capital is considerable, was to hear from the chains once more. Last week in what looked like an adaptation of the Sit-Down, the chains closed hundreds of their Pennsylvania stores with a bang, After turning the key on 80 stores in & around Philadelphia, an A. & P. official announced bluntly: "The stores we have closed couldn't have operated at a profit under the tax. Those where the volume of business is such that the business will show a profit after including the tax will be kept...
...during his first few months of speechmaking. They began to worry when they learned that he, for 16 years mayor of the normally Red suburb of St. Denis and a potent member of the Paris Municipal Council, was actually converting a number of St. Denis voters to fascism. A key point in the program of Doriot, who favors an alliance with Germany & Italy, is the union of pro-German and anti-Russian elements in France. The Leftists guessed the time had come to do something about M. Doriot when, three weeks aso, it became known that he had obtained control...
...difficult key post of Minister of the Interior (controlling the national police force and secret service) Dr. Negrin chose young, forceful Basque Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though...
Nearest to a radio circulation audit is the Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting rating issued twice monthly and giving the percentage of radio sets theoretically tuned in on 250 leading U. S. radio programs, based on actual checks of homes in 32 key areas. Accepted figure for U. S. families owning radio sets Jan. 1, 1937 is 24,500,000. C.A.B.'s rating for Mr. Woollcott's program during the period of last month's advertisements was 5.1%. Calculating 3.5 listeners for every U. S. radio, Mr. Woollcott's listeners were...