Word: lists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best" Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 would be Racket Buster Tom Dewey, picked by 12.2% of all adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...
...full blame for blocking the Federal flood control program in Vermont. Franklin Roosevelt sniffed that Governor Aiken would not have to spend his $67,500 fighting fund: if he would rather have States' rights than Federal flood control, all right, the War Department would scratch Vermont off its list, pour its dollars and its dams into other States...
...companion film, oddly enough concerns two Harvard undergraduates, yes Harvard, gallivanting about a girls' college campus in confused but somewhat amusing style. One of the Hollywoodized Harvard students, who is referred to as "the editor of the Crimson," finally gets Maureen O'Sullivan. Which is better than dean's list...
...result of their showing in a prize examination, testing the first of three grades of progress in the reading list, each of the students has been given a $50 prize...
What else Congress might do to or for business was equally conjectural. First on the House list was the Patman chain-store tax bill, designed to put interstate chains out of business. Other dire legislation may come from the monopoly hearings to be resumed next week. On the plus side, business anticipates juicy returns from the national defense program. And the railroads, pleading on bonded knees for legislative aid, seem fairly sure...