Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note from your article "Der Vashington Pust" in TIME, June 26, that those Shylocks, the music publishers, have been at it again with the victim this time no less a personage than the late John Philip Sousa...
...Gallup poll revealed that 51% of those voting (less in New England and the West, more in the South and Mid-Atlantic) think President & Mrs. Roosevelt should return the visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth...
Obviously that meant more hours of work for the same pay, and pay-per-hour far below "prevailing" (union) rates for skilled labor. Administrator Harrington argued this would be "an important factor in determining need." WPA jobs, calling for 130 hours of work per month, would become less popular. Incentive to get private employment, and hold it, would be enhanced...
...French-protected Morocco, and Emperor Bao Dai of Annam, in Indo-China. Native troops from the French Empire will march alongside crack French regiments. Also in line will be a detachment from British Guards Regiments which have gone to France more than once in the past few centuries on less peaceful missions. Far more significant, zooming overhead will be five squadrons of Spitfire and Hurricane fighting planes, and Blenheim, Hampden and Wellington bombers, 52 planes in all, sent over from Britain for the occasion...
...Young Germany was reading too many thrillers like Beau Geste and Under Two Flags. Last week all books on the Foreign Legion were banned from German school libraries, because they "tend to confuse the immature." Since the French would never trust German against German, the frontier-jumpers were probably less interested in romance than in a job in a nice, relatively safe African protectorate if and when the guns begin to go off in Europe...