Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Nominee Knox said it all over again with a vim which so impressed the Republican National Committee that it decided to keep him almost continuously on the stump until November. Because Vice Presidents do not make national policies, he did not presume to set up a Party program but confined himself to straight-forward criticism, bold but not bitter, vigorous but not violent, scorching but not sarcastic. Excerpts: "An endless succession of interferences and experiments was inaugurated under the deceptive slogan of a new deal. This policy of government by guess, officially explained by President Roosevelt as founded...
Down to defeat in still another run-off went Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program was jut-jawed, 27-year-old Lyle H. Boren who stepped out of a Government job for the campaign. Gassaway's chief attack on him was his failure to marry, produce 14 children, as Gassaway had done. Replied Nominee Boren: "Old Noah or someone in the Bible...
...were gone and the army trooped back in greater numbers. Kept alive & kicking by a hand-out of $4,000 from the State's homeless and transient relief funds, the determined demonstrators last week forced the House and Senate to agree in principle on a program of some $45,000,000 to furnish relief until next February...
Parade. First item on the program was the parade. The Olympic Bell tolled and into the stadium marched 5,000 athletes. Leading, because their country started the Olympic Games in 776 B. C., were the Greeks. Next, at the head of the German alphabetical list were the Egyptians. Loudest applause went to Austrians who gave the Nazi salute, to goose-stepping Bulgarians, to a Swiss flag-bearer who did juggling tricks. English athletes got few cheers. Next to last, the U. S. team members saluted Realmleader Hitler by placing their straw hats over their hearts. The crowd shouted, whistled, clapped...
...pared from $7 to $2 per share. In the June quarter this year the preferred dividend was fully earned, with enough left over to show earnings of 75? per share on the common. But the conservative directorate, having duly considered the past "draft on undivided surplus" and the vast program of plant improvement now under way, decided to husband their profits, voted a quarterly preferred payment of $1 per share, double the recent rate but still short of the regular...