Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truer than history): "You've got to give the cattle [Business] a chance to put some fat on their bones." That spring came the Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well as he could. But the effort killed Joe Robinson. After the funeral at Little Rock, Ark., John Garner went straight to Franklin Roosevelt, plainly told him his Court plan was beaten, but he still was loyal enough to engineer a compromise...
...annual Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan last week, the world's greatest miler, Glenn Cunningham, crouched on the same starting line with the year's flashiest middle-distance man, swiftfooted Negro John Borican. The distance was 1,000 yards, for which Elroy Robinson set the world's outdoor record of 2 min. 9.7 sec. in 1937. Veteran Starter Johnny McHugh, who has been sending track men off the mark for over 30 years, after two false starts raised his shiny little pistol and fired. They were away...
...Manhattan producers-Michael Todd and Alfred de Liagre Jr.-were planning separate swing productions of The Mikado on Broadway. When the Federal Theatre decided to bring its own production East, de Liagre bowed himself out, but Todd, charging WPA with obstructing private enterprise, accelerated his plans, engaged Hoofer Bill Robinson for the title role. Promptly the Federal Theatre closed its show in Chicago, last week opened it-three weeks ahead of Todd's-in Manhattan...
...Hunt Hall, previously Fogg Museum, is admirably suited for such a use. At present Hunt is employed as an office and lecture building, but the Public Administration offices it now houses will soon be transferred to the Littauer Center, the Regional Planning offices could probably be transferred to Robinson Hall, and the Naval Science classes might well be conducted in Sever. Thus although some outlay would obviously be necessary--for transfers, alterations, and equipment--the total cost should not be prohibitive; and possibly the French and Italian governments would be willing to contribute. In the end, such integration of Latin...
...Roosevelt pushed his radical New Deal program through a Congress directed by conservative Congressmen such as Robinson," Long continued, "and it passed only because of its temporary nature and the immediate pressure of the electorate. He had no real party behind him in Congress...