Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlisted strength of the Army from 119,000 to 165,000 (TIME, March 25); a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and on General Aldo Pellegrini for their flight to the Century of Progress in 1933; the repealer of income tar publicity (pink slips...
...watching burly, affable Herpetologist Gladywn Kingsley Noble at work in his clean smock among his pans, tanks and cages on the Museum's sixth floor. He saw Dr. Noble feeding grubs to a small frog which looked exactly as if it had been skinned alive. Its eyes were pink...
...Republic swung into action. The Sentinels are 1,500 dues-paying and 10.000 non-paying patriots who have devoted themselves to sniping at Prohibition, the Child Labor Amendment, the Federal Office of Education and the New Deal. Last February they began to pepper Washington with petitions against the "pink slip," flood the land with letters, circulars, advertisements, radio speeches urging citizens to write their Congressmen about the "outrage." The time was politically ripe because taxpayers were just making out their Federal returns, filling in the facts about their income on the pink slips that went with each return. Suddenly amazed...
Last week the Senate got around to discussing "pink slip" repeal. California's McAdoo had it on the best authority, he solemnly announced, that the nation's widows and widowers were planning a mass scrutiny of pink slips in a hunt for wealthy mates. Texas' Connally said one of his constituents wanted the publicity provision repealed so that his inquisitive mother-in-law could not determine his income, get her allowance raised...
...Manhattan in 1928, U. S. reporters tried hard to dramatize him but the pianist who could sparkle so on the concert platform proved to be an excessively shy person offstage. Money in his pocket led him to many a naive taste but none worth headlines. He took to wearing pink and red shirts, fussed about his tailoring. In London he bought a Rolls-Royce, which still impresses him greatly. Until lately he has taken little pains with his English...