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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there, and "Goober" is none too concerned with House(office)keeping. But let no one, because of these oddities in Congressman Cox's make up, presume that he is not abreast of the times and that he is not an able legislator. WILLIAM E. GROSE Jackson Heights, N...
...convention at Springfield, Ill. last week assembled the National Federation of Federal Employes, an independent union competing with A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for the nation's 800,000 Government employes. To the N. F. F. E. delegates President Roosevelt dispatched a message, conceding the place of Government unions in the U. S. Labor picture but sternly warning: "Militant tactics have no place in the function of an organization of Government employes. . . . Such action looking forward to the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable...
...summer White House staff. And in a call at the Hudson River State Hospital for the insane, the President proved himself a less gloomy visitor than his own guests. He told a class of graduating nurses what had happened when he visited a similar institution at Ogdensburg, N. Y. An old man mowing the lawn, said the President, "took off his hat very politely. After I had passed, I heard the family, who were looking back, roar with laughter. I turned and there was the old gent thumbing his nose at me." While the nurses chuckled, the President gave...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's northern army pecked gingerly at the remnant of Asturian militiamen still holding out at Gijón on the Bay of Biscay last week, otherwise Spain was as quiet as the tomb it is rapidly becoming. From Madrid there was no word, on the Aragon front both sides seemed exhausted after the Leftist capture of Belchite. The war was going on, but the real scene of action had switched to a small sedate town on the shore of Lake Geneva-Nyon...
Once a year half-a-million goose stepping Germans swarm into Nürnberg, "the most German of all German cities," join with another half-million gaping visitors for the greatest political circus in the world, the seven-day Nazi Party Congress. Days before the Congress opened last week, 550 special trains, seething with black, brown, green-shirted Storm Troopers, Special Guards, Labor Corps, Hitler Youth were pouring into the railway stations, disgorging their loads in the allotted ten minutes time. Shouldering their packs, the military and semimilitary corps clumped away to their temporary homes in 13 miniature tent cities...