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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn Laborcrat Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee. "I am opposed to revision in any way that will interfere with the proper working out of this law," Elbert Thomas had said. Convinced that A. F. of L. revision would seriously interfere, he proposed to save the Wagner Act by postponing hearings on their proposals. His excuse: since amendment is a prime issue between A. F. of L. and C. I. O., hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice he succeeded. Last week, noting that the negotiations...
Postman Smith made his escape in a four-wheeled scooter powered by a small gasoline engine. He stands at the back of his doodlebug, put-putting along at four to twelve miles an hour. For a delivery, he leaves his scooter contentedly burbling at the curb, manages to save not only foot-power but some 23% of the time formerly needed to cover his route. His superior, Superintendent of Mails B. H. Kaigler, intends to recommend the scooter's adoption for mailmen in residential districts everywhere...
...boasted he could live in the wilds alone, unaided save by knife and gun. He slept in caves and shelters which he called "forts." He let his hair grow to his shoulders, his beard to his bulging chest. He could throw a baseball in the air and put four rifle bullets into it before it fell. Eight years ago, when he was 18, he accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when...
...ministerial crises (often before they occurred), got first copies of dispatches from diplomats abroad, read the Queen's speeches before the Queen herself had read them. Editor Delane made Cabinet members so scared of The Thunderer that often they hurried to tell him their most vital decisions to save themselves from attack...
...Rule. The rally was perfectly legal, and Bund-sters' freedom of speech was protected by police. All this moved Liberal Caswell to write: "It could well be that a rather severe limitation of liberty and even a censorship might not be too high a price to pay to save democracy from complete destruction." To a liberal group which met last week in a West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., intolerance of intolerance seemed a contradiction in terms. It acted on its convictions. This Committee for Racial and Religious Tolerance-an organization headed by such men as Quaker Rufus Matthew...