Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guys sure go to town with your magazine. . . . If enough people could be induced to read TIME, this cockeyed world would get to be a fit place for civilized people to live in, some day, maybe...
When Vice President Garner, in his capacity as President of the Senate, is in a mood for quick action, his methods are direct. Last week, as the clerk read each section of the Senate Finance Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages...
Leader of the anti-R. O. T. C. group was Mrs. Mary Davison Bradford, 82, daughter of a Wisconsin pioneer and onetime superintendent of Kenosha's schools. Mrs. Bradford has written a salty, widely-read autobiography,* is equally famed in Kenosha for her knitting. Clicking her knitting needles faster & faster, Mrs. Bradford marshaled her troops. When Legionnaires got 275 high-school students to sign a petition asking for R. O. T. C., Mrs. Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment...
...Paley read, quickly and nervously: "The broadcasting industry should unite on a definite program of service, of progress and of protection. . . . The newly organized National Association of broadcasters [which last fortnight picked Louisville Newspaperman Mark Foster Ethridge as temporary president] . . . may well be the instrument. . . . Broadcasting, of course, should be subject to all legislation and regulation governing business in general [but] . . . regulation should be limited to the bare necessities of the case and should never go beyond that. . . . There should be a minimum of regulation...
...Naples. Italy, 45-year-old Petronio Morandi, eating grapes while he read a newspaper, picked up a small electric light bulb, swallowed it whole...