Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wages-&-Hours Bill last summer. Nonetheless, voting on amendments earlier in the week had suggested that the coalition was sufficiently outnumbered to make the final vote on recommitting-i.e., killing- the bill little more than a formality prefacing its passage. When sturdy Mr. O'Connor rose to speak his final piece on the matter last week, the House had just heard Majority Leader Rayburn cry: "Is it possible that we want to send the message to the country tonight, even though we have the President in the White House for two years and eight months longer, that this...
...suing her for $34,000 in commissions. Morning the case was scheduled to start Miss Brice sent word she was very tired, would like to sleep. The Judge granted a postponement until matinée time. When Miss Brice showed up, she sat next to her estranged husband Billy Rose, gaily chatted with him. On the stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether she was in Chicago in 1933 she responded: "I don't know where I was three weeks ago, much...
...even more poignant cry for information on this touchy subject (see p. 57) rose in Manhattan last week. At a discussion on marriage, conducted by the New York Province of College Catholic Clubs, a young woman asked: "Is the rhythmic cycle [of infertility] reliable in the average woman?" Replied Obstetrician Frederick Walter Rice: "The rhythmic cycle is the only recourse left to the Catholic. It will be only when physicians can give data about each woman in regard to the cycle that Catholics can live freely within the moral...
Today you can forget for a moment the Spanish war, the Chinese war, the Government spending-lending plan. Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier are today just ordinary persons. The Olympic games, the Grand National, the Wimbledon and Davis Cup tennis, Rose Bowl football; they are just ordinary sports events. For today is the start of the world's biggest sports spectacle the opening of the major league baseball season, with sixteen teams ready to start a 154-game grind down to the home stretch and the World Series...
...business indices last week there was evidence of little but stagnation. Steel production rose from 33% to 35% of capacity, highest point since November. Car loadings rose a mite in expectation of the new rates. But lumber output was off 6% for the week, power production 2%, oil production 0.8%, soft coal 8%. Bank clearings were at a new low since 1934 but gold was pouring into the country at a rate which showed that the rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from...