Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arithmetic is as much a concern to the 60 professional showmen who have cast their pitch in the New York World's Fair amusement area as it is to the amateur showmen who are struggling with the Big Show itself. At the last audit, fortnight ago, the amusement section had divided a take from Fair visitors of a shade over $3,000,000, and it was not enough...
...rushed his troops into position, telephoned Joffre asking for permission to attack. At six that same morning Colonel Gamelin, inconspicuous in his dark chasseur uniform, mysterious to other officers in his influence on Joffre, saw the same opportunity. He left his lodgings, crossed to Joffre's Operations Section, where officers were arguing over huge military maps scaled at three miles to the inch. He pointed out the opportunity on the map, urged an advance the next day. Joffre came in. Gamelin repeated his opinion. Joffre seemed impressed, discussed it with other officers who were skeptical, postponed decision but wired...
...city of Bombay one night last week the big hotel restaurants were virtually empty because most of the waiters were drunk. In the slum section 20,000 women and 50,000 textile workers paraded to celebrate the downfall of liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay...
...Senator Hatch of New Mexico called on Mr. Roosevelt to discuss with him, section by section, the new "Act to prevent pernicious political activities" which would hamstring the Roosevelt national political machine as well as take politics out of Relief (TIME, July 31). After their talk, Mr. Roosevelt, taking care not to imply that he would veto the act, ridiculed it as vague, unenforceable. Might a Federal employe affected by the bill attend a political rally? he asked. If his good friend were running for office, might that employe sit on the platform? Make a supporting speech? A voluntary contribution...
...third in Washington below Lewis' and Garner's, had a reporter reread Lewis' statement to him, chuckled heartily, said aloud: "That's too eloquent for comment," then sotto voce to a nearby reporter: "It's a sinful world." (Mr. Murphy and the entire press section of the Justice Department spent the rest of that day and evening, in hasty afterthought, insisting he had not correctly understood the statement...