Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School have definitely shown this trend. This expansion has meant new and more numerous duties for the President of the University, whose obvious duty it is to supervise actively all the engagements of the "bureaus" under him. Perhaps the actual expansion of the President's office itself in recent years into a more public position has much to do with the new position...
...Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...
From More Recent Classes...
...Wart also encounters a witch, a giant who apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...
Thus did Communist Browder join a growing chorus of U. S. radicals and liberals who in recent months have forsworn pacifism to espouse preparedness.* Result is that Franklin Roosevelt's Rearmament program now faces little opposition outside Congress save from a few groups of diehard pacifists...