Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your May 24 treatment of my Bulkley letter was fair and even co-operative in spirit and I wish to drop you a note of thanks...
What certain Senators and a few newspapers said was quite unfair. My purpose was, as you note, to treat the larger issue of judicial abuses and minority action in the Senate against immense majority popular votes. My fear is that this sort of thing may some day so divide parties that we shall have dangers before us not unlike those of Italy and Germany in years past. The majority of one's people may not always be right but minorities certainly have made greater blunders...
...Governor Like Me!" The week ended on a note in which comedy was not unmixed with worry for John L. Lewis. Pennsylvania's volatile Governor George Earle, having flown to Johnstown for a surprise speech at the miners' Sunday demonstration, cried to 10,000 rain-drenched unionists: "You don't need violence when you have a man like Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, when you have a liberal Congress in Washington and a Governor like me in Pennsylvania, who respects the workers' rights!" Pledging his assistance in wringing contracts from the steel companies. Governor Earle shouted...
...majority of injuries, both minor and serious, received by people in automobile crashes are due to their being thrown forward against dashboard, windshield, steering wheel or seat by their own inertia when their car suddenly slams to a stop. Last week Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams, speed flyer of note and writer of ability (TIME, Jan. 11), proposed a simple remedy in his daily column in the Pittsburgh Press. Excerpt...
...cabaret entertainment, Harpo Marx finds his way to the piano, starts to play Rachmaninoff's Prelude. When he hits a bass note, the piano begins to misfire. When he plays allegro, the top flies off. When he becomes angry, all the keys begin to fly around his ears. Pleased, Harpo removes the strings, uses them for a magnificent harp solo...