Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exploits of New York City's vigorous young Racketbuster Thomas Edmund Dewey* not only gave impetus to a new cinema vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick...
Cash pay for CCC bucks is $30 a month. Those with dependents must sign over $22 to $25 to the home folks; others must deposit $22 to $25 with the War Department Finance Officer, to be drawn when they leave. CCC figures that $102,400,000 paid enrollees in fiscal 1938 helped 1,365,000 otherwise indigent persons (an average of four dependents...
...Happy Days reported that Major General George Van Horn Moseley (now retired) had advocated "expansion of the CCC to take in every 18-year-old youth in the country for a six-month course in work, education and military training." Happy Days mused: ". . . The teaching of boys to use their fists ... is recognized, even by our religious organizations, as a good and reasonable thing. But to teach a man military training...
...specifically agreed to militarizing his boys. But when a move is afoot to cut down on CCC appropriations or to thwart his ambition to make it a permanent agency, he may stress the corps' present military values. Once he was quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter, thinks CCCers may be useful...
Relative strength of the two unions cannot be accurately known before U. A. W. locals choose between two rival conventions called for next month, C. I. O.'s March 27 in Cleveland, Homer Martin's March 4 in Detroit. Presidents Thomas and Martin last week moved to protect themselves against each other's legal maneuvering by hiring high-powered lawyers. Mr. Martin chose Frank P. Walsh of Manhattan and Frank Mulholland of Toledo. Mr. Thomas chose Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, counsel for years to Sidney Hillman's embattled Amalgamated Clothing Workers, son of the late...