Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this appropriate place, making the major speech of his tour, the President declared that Federal projects like Bonneville make for decentralization of government, enlarged on the merits of "planning from the bottom up." Said he: "Under our laws the President submits to the Congress an annual budget-a budget which, by the way, we expect to have definitely balanced by the next fiscal year. . . . Instead of spending, as some nations do, half their national income in piling up armaments ... we in America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living...
...judiciary last winter was that U. S. Federal courts were far behind schedule, unable to keep up with overcrowded dockets. Last week, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes made public a report adopted by the annual Judicial Conference of Senior Court Judges, held in Washington last fortnight. Major points...
...Girl" is not a great picture but great music is played in a manner that does it justice, nor does the Hungarian Rhapsody (Number 3), a selection from La Traviata, or Mozart's Allelulia in F Major make the picture too highbrow for everyday enjoyment so pleasant is Miss Durbin's portrayal of a musician's daughter...
Sanders Theatre is to house the Federal Music Project's State Symphony Orchestra next Sunday evening in a program headed by Tschaikowsky's First Symphony and including Tartini's Concerto in A Major. These concerts are not of the first or even second rank technically, but they are almost invariably quite worthwhile as a musical experience, and the low price of admission is an added attraction...
...stock market dropped an average of seven points on major issues yesterday...