Word: planks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto, Ontario, small Frank Williams toppled from his perch atop a ski-jump under repair, began an Soft, fall with a scream. Perched on a plank 15 ft. below, big Herman Bautzman heard the scream, stretched an arm, yanked small Frank Williams from the air and death...
Relief. When the sub-committee on relief reported its plank, it was evident how far the 90 tycoons had traveled. Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.* Yet last week. knowing the dole to be far cheaper than made work, their sub-committee plumped solidly for the dole. But such straightforward language would never do. President Roosevelt feels now about the dole as the tycoons felt three years ago, favors work relief as a means of preserving morale among...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall, one of Florida's two immortal sons is Dr. John Gorrie . . ." [TIME, Dec. 3]?wrong again. He is her only son there. Surprised recently at the sight of a gentleman roped to a plank being dragged head first down the Capitol steps, I found him to be the bronze edition of Florida's other son, General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. A., who now stands with several other sons in the Hall of Columns one floor below. Under a Congressional resolution, mainly because the great weight of almost 100 statues was considered unsafe, the Hall...
This land distribution, for years the chief plank of National Revolutionary Party platforms, is the cornerstone of the Six-Year Plan. Flatly the Plan postulates that over the period 1934-40 Mexico's budget will be saddled with "an augmentation of 81%" to pay the cost of putting peasants on what the Government hopes will be more than subsistence farms, with irrigation. Candidly the Plan admits "a great part of Mexico's lands are rather poor. . . . The country's sparsity of population is the chief obstacle in its progress. . . . Mexico is constantly threatened by diseases characteristically tropical...
...last Plan-plank the radical new President attaches major importance. "'Our Six-Year Plan is to transform and replace Capitalism!" Candidate Cárdenas shouted in speech after speech. From the Plan he quoted many a pledge such as this: "The supply of electric energy shall be reduced in price so as to enable industrial production to live through electrical energy and not for electrical energy...