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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The Senate today struck proposed shackles on the New Deal utility program from the recovery -relief bill on assurance from President Roosevelt that no federal aid will be given to erect public power plants unless and until private firms reject "fair" offers for municipal purchase of their facilities...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...Wendell and Copie; in addition, he gave a vigorous treatment of contemporary American literature, which seems highly important for the Harvard undergraduate. His courses were not "aesthetic" in appeal, and he taught no sterile tradition of polite letters. . . . It would be a great pity if Harvard should ignore or reject a man whom it has helped to make one of the significant American critics of the day. Hugh Mason Wade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

Chamberlain: "The Government is satisfied we are making the best use of our resources." He went on to reject Labor proposals that the British munitions industry be taken over by the Government, declared: "That would strike a terrible blow at the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Safety First | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Without exception every Tokyo paper reported that the Japanese Government would reject the Brussels Conference's proposals, Nichi Nichi adding that the Conference had better advise China to approach Japan directly and sue for peace. Adolf Hitler, having kept completely mum and kept Germany out of the Conference, was conceded by European observers to be building up a position of technical aloofness to which Japanese and Chinese might ultimately turn, should they decide that One Man can mediate better than a Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Brussels Conference | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Professor Booth traced the history of the Jows, and development of thought about its interpretation from the Middle Ages to the present day. He stated that "we should reject any 'Old Testament' concept of authority which binds our minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booth Gives Sixth Lecture In Christian World Series | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

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