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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From California many British orders will be flown to Canada; French and other orders flown to New York for crating. With 626 planes ready for shipment in the U. S., with an additional $100,000,000 in plane orders reported on the way, with Canada preparing to buy 1,500 planes in which to begin training 25,000 Empire airmen during 1940, the plane outlook was rosy. Trading in aircraft stocks boomed on the nation's markets; day after day aircraft stocks led in turnover...
...Curran and the red-faced rage of Martin Dies, New Orleans police asked Washington police to hold Witness McCuistion, charging that he had had a hand in beating and shooting to death a Curranite last September. Chairman Dies roared that it was a dirty union trick, called upon the U. S. Department of Justice to protect Witness McCuistion. The suggestion that New Orleans police had worked hand-in-hand with a C. I. O. union to discredit the committee amused profane, posy-wearing Chief of Detectives Johnnie Grosch. In New Orleans, he recalled his prowess at hounding...
...created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
Things dragged on. Latin American diplomats dodged the issue many a time until last week. Then Pan American Union's governing board performed a judgment of Solomon. Ignoring both camps, they chose as the new chairwoman lissome Señora Ana Rosa de Martinez Guerrero of Argentina, who has no commitments in either camp and speaks no English, is not expected to visit Washington often...
Illinois women, led by the League of Women Voters, have long clamored for the right to serve on juries. Last summer they got their reward: the courts upheld the constitutionality of a new law making jury service for women in Illinois compulsory...