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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...navy are fully manned the army last week was 25,000 men shorthanded. Chief reason for this is on the lips of every Tommy-"We don't get enough bleeding pay." As Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson M. P. recently pointed out "army pay in every rank is lower than in the navy or in the air force." The general theory is that a sailor deserves more because he is forced to leave his sweethearts for long periods, an air force man because he is constantly in danger. Coupled with this, sailors and air force men find it easier...
Drafted after the collapse of the Court Plan three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 2), and added as an amendment to a bill previously passed by the House, last week's Court Bill has four main provisions. It enables the Attorney General to intervene in lower-court constitutional cases, provides for speeding such cases to the Supreme Court, permits the temporary reassignment of Federal district judges, limits lower-court injunctive power by requiring decisions from a three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention...
...paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy, but a trifle compared to the cost of other Federal efforts to aid the underprivileged. Only tenants qualifying for the new houses would be the rock-bottom 15% of the lower third which President Roosevelt has labeled "ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-fed"-about 175,000 families earning some $50 a month and paying about $5 rent per room...
When Muni was 18 he was making an average of $15 a week. He was a success. In 1917 he showed up on Manhattan's lower East Side where he was soon spotted and signed up by Maurice Schwartz of the Yiddish Art Theatre. For seven years Muni plugged hard at his work. In 1926 Sam Harris gave him the lead in the play We Americans. The play was a hit and Muni's future was virtually assured. Success did not change him much. He did not gamble or drink or imitate the ways of the Gentiles...
...okapi was a rare find. His species lives only in the Ituri Forest and was unknown to Europe until 1900. That year Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, British explorer, identified the okapi as closely related to the giraffe, but of a lower order. It has shorter neck and legs, topped by an antelope head and large, furry ears. It reaches a height of five feet at the shoulder. Distinctive are its deep red-brown color, its white-striped legs and hind quarters. The Buta okapi was doubly valuable because he was so fine a specimen. Last week he participated...