Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days previously Young Bob, over a nationwide radio network, had signed on with his brother Phil's new political party. If Senator Bob was kinder to the President ("one of the great liberal leaders of modern times") in his speech than Governor Phil had been in Madison last month, he was equally firm in his conviction that the Roosevelt Administration was hopelessly bogged down, that the La Follette National Progressives were the U. S.'s only answer...
...mainly $1,250,000,000 for WPA, $965,000,000 for PWA (plus a $500,000,000 revolving fund to be used for loans to States & cities), $175,000,000 to the Farm Security Administration. As such it represented the rest of the program proposed by Franklin Roosevelt a month ago, except for the $300,000,000 for slum clearance...
...Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed the liberal tone of Justice Black's dissenting opinions, particularly one in which he contradicted the Court's 50-year-old interpretation of the 14th Amendment as applying to corporations.* Last month, however, a Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year on the Court from an entirely different point of view. According to Mr. Childs, several of the Black dissents were notable less for their liberalism than for technical incompetence, and furthermore, Mr. Black...
From Barcelona last week came confirmation that while Leftist troops were busy with their retreat to the sea month ago. Leftist military tribunals were busy wiping out disaffection behind the lines. During April in Barcelona alone 135 death penalties were dealt out, 103 for "defeatism" and treason...
...presents no more complications, drawbacks and headaches than its artistic side, CBS has Columnist Gilbert Vivian Seldes masterminding the aesthetics of television for it while RCA builds it a transmitter to go in the Chrysler Building tower (telecasting range depends on the height of the transmitting antennae). For a month NBC has been actually sending out shows several hours a week.* Last week, when the press was given a preview on what had been done, it was decided that test programming would continue throughout the summer...