Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gradually during the past few weeks the significance of these events began to dawn on Congress. The Farm Federation, a strong and representative group of farmers, had turned from conservative to radical?wanted something entirely beyond the Administration's program. Other farm bodies spoke in similar fashion. Supporters of the Administration coming up for re-election next year began to have fears. Senator Cummins, veteran regular, was represented as going to the White House with the declaration that unless something were done about the farm surplus (i.e., farm prices) he might well be defeated...
...extreme gravity of the present fiscal crisis in France (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante) was again made evident last week by the failure of Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer to secure the unanimous support of the Cabinet for M. Doumer's fiscal program for the coming year...
Premier Briand, whatever his preparatory duplicities, pledged his entire Cabinet to stand or fall by M. Doumer's projected fiscal program, in an address to 150 Deputies: "This time I will not change my Minister of Finance. If you defeat Doumer you will not hear from me again. I will withdraw from politics and you may then settle your account with the country...
...Little Academic Dramatic Theatre (now in the 101st year of its existence). A program made up chiefly of plays by Ostrovsky, Schiller and Shakespeare; and several "serious modern plays of a social significance," together with "a travesty on Soviet life," The Commissar's Brother, by M. Lerner...
...agenda of the proposed Special Disarmament Committee was embodied by M. Benes of Czechoslovakia into a long and complicated technical program, which provides that the following factors bearing on disarmament shall be considered...