Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn of Rightists to try pillars of the Left, and ever since Congress convened they have been at it. Felix Frankfurter, Harry Hopkins, Frank Murphy led the parade, were obliged to take the witness chair and state publicly their political beliefs. Comparatively they made a much less diverting show, for the possession of even "radical" beliefs is less dramatic than the possession of great wealth, and these Leftists were far nimbler witnesses than the scared Rightists. Last week came the trials of two more Leftists, and again the performances fell short of their billing...
...took advantage of a 1937 judiciary act, the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious Court Plan-permitting Justices with ten years' service to retire on their full $20,000 salary after 70. Whether he did so for his health, or to head a world-wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss it. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a gracious reply: "One must perforce...
Civilian penetration of naval and military affairs has so far raised less dust around the Navy Building than in the War Department. Big Navies are of necessity non-isolationist, and the U. S. Big Navy was already being made to order when Franklin Roosevelt began to do over U. S. foreign policy. The Army's Chief of Staff Malin Craig is an isolationist of the first water, genuinely believes the U. S. Army should be fitted to the minimum necessities of simple defense. Charles Edison's good friend, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson...
...handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge of the rock-bedded river which separates Puigcerda from the French border village of Bourg-Madame. All of Catalonia was theirs. On the other side of the river, less than 500 yards away, several thousand Loyalist soldiers dumped their arms and ammunition into piles at the roadside and tramped dejectedly off to French concentration camps...
...Less than three minutes of the period were remaining when the Heddermen turned in their first tally. On a jump into Blue territory Joe Patrick took a pass from center Austie Harding, drew goalie Harry Holt out on his knees, and slipped the rubber in between his legs...