Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propaganda" into lining up with European democracies against totalitarian governments. And in Newark, N. J. Republican National Committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton spoke at a banquet in honor of New Jersey's seven Republican Representatives and Senatorial Candidate W. Warren Barbour. Mr. Hamilton's thesis: "In recent months there has been a tremendous flight of votes from the Democratic to the Republican Party"; and unless the Republicans succeed in winning 1938 Congressional elections, those elections might be the party's last fight. Said Mr. Hamilton: "I don't think we are going to survive...
...This ideal . . . has in recent years encountered serious difficulties. And these difficulties are increasing. ... In some fields it is now profitless to go where we formerly went. We find ourselves stopped at some frontiers-not because the frontiers have any greater geographical significance than they had a few years ago, but because behind them the search for truth by eager and skeptical minds has been made impossible...
Smallpox, of which there have been numerous cases in the West and an outbreak in Detroit (TIME, Feb. 7), has spread to all parts of the U. S. except the Atlantic Coast, has struck nearly three times as many people as in recent years. That a disease for which means of prevention have long been known should again break out may be due to an increasing number of children escaping vaccination, to the failure of adults to be revaccinated...
...Last week it looked as though the unknown backers, if any, would have to invest their money elsewhere. For the ICC examiner not only recommended that Gilbert Gable's certificate of convenience & necessity be withdrawn but also that one be refused to the Crescent City group. Said he: "Recent army reports show that the prospect of future growing importance of the ports of Port Orford and Crescent City definitely may be discarded as a factor of consequence in this proceeding...
...credited with suggesting Quebec's "Padlock Law." By this statute the Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided and padlocked, on the strength of his belief that it is disseminating Communism (TIME, Nov. 22). Most unfortunate recent victim of the Padlock Law was a Jewish Cultural Circle in Montreal whose 950-volume library was gutted by police, 800 books being confiscated as looking suspicious -they were in Yiddish and Hebrew...