Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Florida's Senator Claude Pepper won a resounding victory in a State primary last month, political wiseacres reached the solemn conclusion that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's popularity was on the upgrade. When Pennsylvania's Lieut.-Governor Thomas Patrick Kennedy (endorsed by Postmaster Farley), suffered a defeat in a State primary last week, political wiseacres reached the conclusion that Franklin Roosevelt's popularity was on the downgrade. Four days later, an Oregon primary election caused their judgment to be reversed...
These words riled Mr. Wallace, because they sounded very like the words of a decision last month in which the Court held that the Secretary of Agriculture, when fixing commissions to be charged on sheep in the Kansas City stockyards, should have permitted the commission, firms to hear and oppose a preliminary report by Government investigators before the order became effective...
...three weeks ago. While 75,000 Clevelanders were getting short rations instead of checks, all 19 of Chicago's relief stations last week shut their doors with a bang. Thirty-four thousand of their 93,000 relief cases (each "case" represents about three people) got, instead of monthly checks, baskets doled out by Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. A month's provisions for each family of four consisted of: 2 lb. of dried beans, 4 Ib. of butter, 4 Ib. of prunes, 20 Ib. of cabbage, 8 stalks of celery, 15 Ib. of oranges, 2 Ib. of rice...
...desk in room 305 of Converse Laboratory a set of chemical flasks and test tubes have lain unused for thirty days. It was a month ago that the man who formerly manipulated them with masterly skill, until then in active and buoyant health at 72, was suddenly forced to a sickbed. Now they must go to another owner, for Elmer Peter Kohler passed away Tuesday morning...
Anyone who has ever been sick knows how delightful it is to have visitors. I imagine how some Freshman from a far distant spot must feel when he comes here to sojourn for a time in Stillman during his first month. It would not be conducive to joyful feelings even the most hearty. May I suggest to all those upperclassmen who have not outworn doing a daily good turn that here is a fruitful field of endeavor--a visit to an invalid Freshman would not be unappreciated, even by the most bilish. Charles H. Clark...