Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, often disturbed by low-flying airplanes-even in his dreams (TIME, June 13)-signed an executive order roping off a wide section of Washington over which civilian pilots may not fly without special permission from the Secretary of Commerce. The area: a quarter-mile outside of the rectangle at whose corners stand the Union Station, the Capitol, the Naval Hospital, the White House...
...witness named Dr. Ignatz Griebl, are believed to have left the U. S. Two, Lieut. Commander Udo von Bruen, and Lieut. Commander Hermann Menzel are minor officials of the German War Ministry. In captivity awaiting trial are only four: Otto Hermann Voss, a onetime employe in the experimental section of Seversky Aircraft Corp. at Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and messenger of the ring, charged with transmitting to their employers...
Popular are: 1) Franklin Roosevelt's personality, liked by 80.3%, disliked by 11.7%* of the people (liked in fact by a majority in every section of the U. S., of every class and occupation); 2) his rearmament policy liked by 63.6%, disliked by 13.2%; 3) F. D. R. as President, approved of "in general" by 54.8%, disapproved of by 33.9%; 4) his international policy, liked by 50%, disliked by 15%; 5) his wages-&-hours legislation, liked by 48.8%, disliked by 21.8%; 6) his eco-nomic objectives, liked by 48.1%, disliked by 29.1%; 7) his attitude toward unions, liked...
...large section of the world's diplomats believe that five weeks ago Chancellor Hitler made a feint in Czechoslovakia's direction when he moved 170,000 troops into "summer barracks" nearer the border. He had just Nazified Austria while French and Germans stood by with open mouths. Their mouths were still open when the Reich's soldiers began ominously moving around on their side of the Czechoslovak border. In this crisis the Czechoslovakian Republic, the keystone of democracy in central Europe, marched 400,000 troops up to its side of the border and the first German over...
...National Exhibition is not a cross-section of the best contemporary U. S. painting. Selections are made by state committees picked by Governors. The number of pieces a State may exhibit is determined by its population rather than bv the number of good painters in it. New York has an additional rule that artists whose works have appeared in one National Exhibition are disqualified from later ones, thus excluding several like Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook, William Zorach...