Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revisiting my native land after an absence of 40 years," see Rome fiddle while Italy burns at both ends-in Africa and at home. A six-month drought compels the peasants to mow down their stunted winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have...
TIME'S list of outstanding new records is published in its first issue of each month. For the next list, let Reader Spelt and other music lovers see TIME for July...
When Harry Hopkins fired Victor Christgau last month, Mr. Christgau said it was because he had refused to let Governor Elmer Benson get control of 60,000 Minnesota jobs for his Farmer-Labor Party, to help him get re-elected in November. Chief quarrel between Mr. Christgau and Mr. Benson had been over a $700,000 project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau...
...would have on its hands a production-&-price control problem beside which reducing next year's wheat acreage would be child's play. Moreover, if the Government should subsidize one manufacturing business, where then could it stop, at automobiles or animal crackers, at zeppelins or zithers? Last month, in ordering 60,000,000 yards of cotton textiles for its sewing projects (an increase of 45,000,000 yards over previous orders), WPA explained that one reason for expanding the order was to make work for the textile mills. But so far. Franklin Roosevelt has resisted every pressure...
Last week, Widow Sadie Monssen, 50, had not been forgotten by other agencies of her Government. From the Veterans' Administration she has been getting a $30-a-month widow's pension. From WPA her daughter has had $24 a week relief pay. From HOLC she received a notice that her home in Brooklyn would be foreclosed because she could not raise more than $35 of the $65.56 due monthly on her loans and owed $967 back interest...