Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issues to bring about the national Liberal v. Conservative realignment he had undertaken. 2) He could acquiesce in the new independence of Congress and let it work out its own solutions to controversial problems like Labor law and Social Security revision, railroad rehabilitation, while he led on toward larger, less controversial goals such as national Rearmament and security for the Western Hemisphere. 3) He could seek by placation and compromise to restore harmony within his own party...
...Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon. They nearly won in Indiana, won all high State offices but the Governorship in Nebraska, gained the Governorship and barely missed another Senator in Iowa. All those victories were against Democrats. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, ruled by Farmer-Labor and Progressives who were more or less allies of the New Deal, they won two more Governorships, one Senatorship...
...Franklin Roosevelt the first general report on the actual effects of the Act. Said Elmer Andrews: "Many of the earlier news reports considerably exaggerated the difficulties experienced because of the new Act. The number affected by plant layoffs is apparently not more than 30,000 to 50,000, or less than one half of 1% of the workers coming under the Act. . . . It is noteworthy that the layoffs have been concentrated in a very few industries in the South. . . . About 90% . . . were employed in pecan shelling, tobacco stemming, lumber and bagging...
...Though they constitute one-third of the population, Jews hold less than 5% of the public jobs...
...Penn Sophomore raced home some 200 yards ahead of his nearest rival to win the IC4A cross country meet in New York yesterday. Harvard, who placed eleventh in the team standings, had only one man finishing less than fiftieth as Captain Rosswell Brayton came in twenty-second...