Word: passing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt's long indecision about his Attorney General was at last resolved by Vice President Garner and Jim Farley: five New Yorkers in the Cabinet would really be too many, therefore the President must pass over Solicitor-General Bob Jackson. Mr. Garner's thorough approval of Michigan's rufous Governor-reject Frank Murphy settled the matter. With that approval, the man-who-was-soft-on-sit-down-strikers could be confirmed without trouble. So Mr. Murphy packed up in Lansing, took his brother George, his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan and the Bible his mother gave...
...rest, that success looked singularly hollow: the important House Rules Committee was in such a mess that the New Deal gave up hope of organizing it before Congress met this week. Illinois' old Representative Adolph Joachim Sabath to whom chairmanship of the committee was scheduled to pass, by seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation. Of three New Deal members of the committee, two went down to defeat like Mr. O'Connor, leaving Mr. Sabath alone. But five anti-New Deal Democrats -including Georgia's bitter Cox and loud...
...Tellegen as well as the Propaganda Minister of Germany is gimpy little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. His carryings-on with the actresses on whom he must pass before they may appear on the German stage or screen are a joke as well as a scandal in the upper circles of Naziland...
Then the serpent enters the Garden: the harvesting machine is invented, the rail-road arrives, sinister-looking capitalists in plug hats turn up. Years pass; the farmer prospers, the rascally capitalists wax fat, the nation's fibre is weakened. Then comes 1929: the gorged capitalists expire of a gut-ache, the farmer is ruined and goes back to plowing...
...death on Christmas Day of 48-year-old CzechoSlovakian Dramatist Karel Capek (TIME, Jan. 2), 82-year-old Dramatist George Bernard Shaw exclaimed: "Why did he die? Why not me? ... It seems almost absurd that an old man like me should continue living while youngsters like Karel have to pass...