Word: putted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he proudly put his name to the Social Security Act (Aug. 14, 1935), Architect Franklin Roosevelt observed that the law was "the cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete." Last year the Senate Finance Committee, beset by the clamor of other architects to improve on the plans, commissioned an Advisory Council of 25-including employers, labormen, Government officials and consumers, chairmanned by Princeton Economist James Douglas Brown-to draw up plans for rebuilding the structure. Last week the Council handed back a much amended set of blueprints, designed to repair some...
...oppose Mr. Thompson for the Republican nomination, respectable citizens drafted Dwight H. Green, former U. S. District Attorney who put Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone behind bars...
Next day Skobline's wife, Nadine Plevitskaia, a dark singer with tragic features, was questioned at police headquarters. Police found her answers to questions "sometimes reticent, contradictory or inexact." She said she wanted protection, asked to be put up for the night. Finally she was arrested on suspicion of complicity...
...Coast last summer, had major-league scouts tripping over one another in the Rainiers' ball park. When he finished the season with 25 games won, seven lost, 145 strikeouts, an earned-run average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs last week-gave almost the equivalent of $100,000 for the baseball find...
...Federal Theatre). The old fable of Androcles, who removed a painful thorn from a lion's paw, which caused the lion, when they met again in the Roman arena, to fall upon his neck instead of his limbs, has come a long way. A generation ago Shaw put the fable into play form as a droll picture of the early Christian martyrs and a juggling act on religion. Last week the Federal Theatre, seeing in Shaw's play "a pertinent dramatic discourse upon the problem of world minorities," produced it in Harlem, as a Negro problem play, with...