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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice of bumbling "Dear Alben" Barkley over Pat Harrison for his new Leader. Next came the attempted Purge, another stroke of political amateurishness. McNary grew almost profane when restless men like Vandenberg talked openly of an open coalition with the conservative Democrats whom Roosevelt was trying to read out. He encouraged his followers to go to ball games with Jack Garner, Pat Harrison and other time-biders, but kept them from doing anything that might revive loyalty to the Democratic label...
...civilized world, on the rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published a book* designed to spread her doctrines to parents-especially the parents of children of pre-school age. Parents who read it will find that she knocks some accepted notions of child-raising into a very queerly-shaped...
When A. F. A.'s Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead read in trade papers last winter that his union was incompetently and bossily run, he demanded that Four A's either give him a lollipop or a licking. Four A's, handing out no lollipops, investigated, last month issued eight charges against A. F. A., cited it for trial last week. Some charges: that A. F. A. was not run democratically; that it withheld some of its records from Four A's investigators; that it had used for administrative expenses $12,997 it had collected from benefits...
...Jersey City board room last week the play reached its climax before the curtain had well risen. At the first motion (to dispense with the reading of the minutes) Mr. Hardy sent his tellers among the stockholders to collect ballots on the motion. When all were in, Charlie Hardy, without so much as a glance at Oscar Cintas, rasped that the chair represented a majority of the stock, announced the minutes would not be read...
Though he writes best about orchids, shrewd Author MacDonald does not write too much about them. He senses that most readers will read his jungle success story for its account of guácharos, birds with whiskers on their beaks (when their young fall out of the nest they plop and explode), trees that put people to sleep, moths whose sting drives men insane...