Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Someone had to pioneer. Some industry had to translate theory into action, to turn the mere potentialities of the Recovery Act . . . into actualities. . . . The cotton textile industry has thus taken its courage in its hands. It has blocked out a plan of operations on its sector of the industrial front and today, putting that plan into effect, advances as the spearhead of the attack. . . ." Such was the stirring announcement with which the Industry plunged into NRA 13 months...
...outlawed child labor in the mills, cut working hours from as high as 55 to 40 per week, set a minimum wage of $12 in the South, $13 in the North. On July 17, the day his code went into effect, he made his stirring declaration: "Someone had to pioneer...
...knows, the Young Pioneers?Bolshevik boy and girl scouts?have had plenty of suffering and struggling in Russia, largely at the hands of oldsters unable to understand the ideals of Young Russia. In December 1932, there was the case of little Pavel and Fedor Morosov. Pavel & Fedor were Young Pioneers and they knew that their father, president of a local Soviet, was secretly in league with village kulaks. As a good Pioneer, Pavel promptly peached on papa but other villagers did not appreciate the children's rectitude. They tracked Pavel & Fedor to the woods, hacked their bodies to bits (TIME...
...pioneer seven years ago in using the phonograph to preserve U. S. regional dialects, Professor Greet has roamed the land, taught his methods in summer school at Columbia. Last week it was announced that he will supervise a full graduate course there this autumn, in a new "Language Room" equipped with recording instruments, disks, phonographs, charts and a phonetics exhibit. In addition, each & every Columbia freshman will be required to make three phonograph records during the year, by which his speech defects may be corrected. These records will comprise an extempore recitation on a subject like "How I Spent...
...Governor. Joseph Boyd Poindexter is the son of a California pioneer who became a rancher in Montana during the '80s. Son Joseph grew up, took to the law, went into politics, became a State judge. He was Montana's Attorney General in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson made him a Federal judge in Hawaii. He was a quiet man, some said stubborn, firm and courteous on the bench, not given to expansive talk or large social entertainments. Hunting, fishing and contract bridge were his only sports and his only boast concerned fishing: "The big ones never get away from...