Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these are minor improvements that concentrators suggested in the Confidential Guide meeting. If the University continues to ignore the needs of Biochemistry, it will surely starve a most promising infant among the sciences. Left on the doorstep by the previous administration, it has since lived on a diet of air and water; yet if it is to be preserved and developed, it demands a normal diet...
This time Mrs. Norton was able to keep the bill from death by amendment. The few minor amendments adopted exempted from the provisions of the bill agricultural workers, employes of any branch of the fishing industry, of weekly or semiweekly country newspapers with circulations of 3,000 or less. California's Charles Kramer relieved his colleagues' tension for a moment by offering an amendment exempting child actors from the child labor provisions. Dubbed the Shirley Temple Amendment, it was promptly adopted. But the tension returned as the bill approached its real test, and then as the first fateful...
...halt Depression II was the main subject before the Senate last week. Mississippi's Bilbo explained for four hours how to end Depression II by sending the South's unemployed Negroes back to Africa. Illinois' J. Ham Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming debate was soon drowned out by a poll-priming wrangle...
BRAHMS: SONATA No. 3, IN D MINOR. FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (Joseph Szigeti and Egon Petri; Columbia: 6 sides). An unbeatable sonata team plays a great and proverbially difficult work superbly...
Married. Jeffery Farnol, 60, minor English novelist (The Amateur Gentleman, The Broad Highway) who was divorced last fall from U. S.-born Blanche Hawley Farnol; and Phyllis Mark Clarke, his daughter's former music teacher; in Exeter, England...