Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week onetime Secretary of War Hurley was flying from Los Angeles to Tulsa. At Phoenix, Ariz., he looked up, saw Herr Struver, attache of the German Embassy at Washington, step aboard. Foes Hurley & Struver breakfasted together...
...politics was the subject of Anderson's Both Your Houses, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1933. Across his frieze of expedient contemporary Congressmen, Mr. Anderson wrote a dramatic motto to the effect that a people is worthy of the government it gets. He carries the theme a step farther in Valley Forge, asserting that, right or wrong, the government a people gets is the one it wants and should have. Neither his Washington nor his Continentals have many illusions about the republic they are about to set up, but Mr. Anderson does his best to dignify the perverse...
...courses lie open to the Committee. It can step outside of the present coaching ranks and bring in a newcomer as the guiding light of the Crimson's football forces next fall. Or it can select one of the men who have served under Casey in a subordinate position. Those are the alternative solutions...
...Conferences left up in the air the crux of the whole business: Saint Gandhi's demand for "Dominion Status" (TIME, Jan. 2, 1933). Finally the National Government smothered India's aspiration to rank beside Canada with a revised Federalization program called the White Paper. As the first step toward whipping this into legislative form the Linlithgow Commission was constituted and has performed such feats as asking one of its members, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, over 2,000 questions...
...largely responsible for the safety of vessels at sea, the U. S. Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection has had to take its share of blame for the Morro Castle disaster.* Notably concerned by the Bureau's apparent inefficiency was President Roosevelt. Last week, as the first step in its reorganization, he drafted a famed seaman to take what the Bureau's Director Joseph B. Weaver called "the most important job of its kind in the world." The job: supervising inspector of the Bureau's 2nd District (New York, Philadelphia, Albany, New Haven). The man: Captain George Fried...