Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which had not yet been completed last week, will be evidence of what happened to a businessman after he got into politics. Other demonstrations of what a Republican may do to new-dealish institutions set up before his advent were in store as Business-Governor Heil addressed himself to major monuments of the La Follette regime...
...equally vociferous in proclaiming that their man has the best backhand in the world, that he had won every match he wanted to win since Fred Perry beat him at Forest Hills in 1936, that he is the only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships: Australian, French, English, U. S. Like urchins arguing on a street corner, the Vinesmen usually ended the rally by jeering that Budge was at the top because he had never met any real opposition...
...EMPLOYMENT SHOWS DECLINE (WPA) . . . TEACHING TOLERANCE A MAJOR PROBLEM IN 1939 (Office of Education) . . . ELECTION SCHEDULED AT ARAGON-BALDWIN COTTON MILLS (NLRB) . . . IMPORTANCE OF RIBOFLAVIN IN HUMAN DIET (Public Health Service...
Most impressive and significant event of the week was the light plane cavalcade of some 550 Pipers, Taylor Cubs, Aeroncas, mobilized by Major Al Williams and his flying staff of the Gulf Oil Corp.'s aviation department. On the opening day 325 of these little fellows flew into Miami on free gas and oil from the East, the Middle West and the Southwest, settling like flocks of gulls on Florida's sands. By the meet's end most of the stragglers had joined the first 325. Of the rest, forced down en route by weather, low fuel...
Unlike these three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...