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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...
...Empower U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeal to review NLRB's findings. (NLRB frankly doubts that many judges are competent to scent the innumerable subtleties of Labor warfare, is already worried because the U. S. Supreme Court has in effect given lower courts the power proposed...
...Exempt Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from the arbitrary wage minima prescribed for the U. S. and let committees familiar with island industries figure out how to raise wages without ruining island industries now accustomed to living in an economy with a much lower scale of prices...
Theme of this gracefully padded first novel: intellectuals are hawks, plain citizens are sparrows. Intellectual Kipter, a bearded, philosophical, moulting bird, goes to board in a nest of lower-middle-class sparrows: a voluptuous ex-chorus girl and her 17-year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals...
...fish has very archaic gill flaps and lower jaw, big bony scales covered with enamel, lobed and limb-like fins, a curious double tail divided by a spinal projection. It is a typical member of the Coelacanths, a primitive fish family which first appeared 300,000,000 years ago when the only land animals were amphibians, and which was widespread and flourishing when the Age of Reptiles was just getting under way. The family has been considered extinct for 50,000,000 years because that is the most recent date assigned to any Coelacanth fossil found in the rocks. Thus...