Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire a man for one hour, say to load a truck, and pay him one dollar-I must collect from him one cent-discover his full name-his Social Security number-and make an individual report on the deal at the end of the six-month period...
...that we break relationship with all bourgeois parties. Do they hold to that today? [Cries of "No! No!"] Do they insist today that we break with all bourgeois parties as they used to do? No, on the contrary. The slogan today is that we return once more to the period before July 18th.* And if the unification must be on the condition that all the blood which has been shed must serve to revive once more in our country that class which has been principally responsible for the war which we are now enduring, Largo Caballero is not for that...
...Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener's mind, he said, was his favorite period- the French 18th Century - and particularly two paintings by François Boucher, who, had he lived two centuries later, would have made a fortune painting dimpled ladies for the covers of sentimental magazines. The Philadelphia Artists' Union hotly demanded that someone fire the Wilstach administrator. Even moderate Philadelphians took...
...games excepting a 0-0 tie with Washington. Stanford, the most erratic team on the Pacific Coast, still had a chance to win the right to play on New Year's day in the Rose Bowl by suddenly emerging in one of its "hot" spells. During the first period 85,000 fans shivered in the rain as the teams tentatively tired each other out. In the second period California's "Thunder Team" started rumbling. On two sustained drives, it carried over two successive touchdowns. They were enough. California won 13-to-0 and assured itself...
Because for a brief period during the war he served in the United States Navy, the Legion furnished a guard of honor to one of the men responsible for the current gang warfare in Revere. When Gaeta was slain on Tuesday by East Boston gangsters who were trying to "muscle in" on his number pool and bookmaking monopoly, Revere Post No. 61 of the Legion stepped willingly forward to claim its glorious dead. On Wednesday Revere's flags, which twelve days before had honored America's 400,000 World War dead, flew at half-mast again in honor of their...