Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purge? Thus the Roosevelt primary score for the week showed, net, a few points to the good. But no great progress had been made by the Roosevelt Purge, which when Franklin Roosevelt started on his political & fishing trip four weeks ago was supposed to be his big plan for the 1938 primaries. This week, Franklin Roosevelt, landing in Florida, had to decide whether to press or abandon the Purge against the three most-mentioned candidates for purging: Senator George in Georgia, Senator Smith in South Carolina, Senator Tydings in Maryland. A guide for Mr. Roosevelt was last week offered...
...they can keep him from following his own plan of battle. In the process they might possibly land a lucky haymaker. Meanwhile General Franco, fighting not only the Leftists but the heat which reached 113°, relied chiefly on his sun-baked Moorish riflemen, last week made relatively little progress in straightening out the dents in his fronts...
...appeared that the King, virtually a dictator, had acted forehandedly to keep Rumania from later becoming the butt of demands like those now being made in Czechoslovakia by the Sudeten Germans. Although Rumania's fine new Minorities Statute spelled definite progress, it was also an admission of the servile status in which for 20 years Rumanian minorities have been kept. They are now granted elementary civic rights. For the first time they can be elected without racial disqualification to State and civic jobs. The State will lend its support to public schools where teaching is in the minorities...
...Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor wrote: "The evil of producing and exhibiting coalitions is one of the gravest perils that has ever confronted the motionpicture industry. For some time past this condition has been developing and now threatens to halt the industry's progress. . . ." Last week this prediction came home to roost as the U. S. Department of Justice, acting under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and quoting Mr. Zukor's words, brought suit against him and almost every other bigwig in the cinema business. But, vast as this trust-busting procedure appeared, it was no New Deal crackdown...
...this piqued the die-hards in the industry, they had cause to ponder too. For Bill Douglas, though disclaiming any further death sentence plans "because of our belief that the substantial companies in the industry are making progress" in designing such reorganizations, also declared: "This action on the part of the commission means the commission means business...