Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tribunal did not assume jurisdiction on the writ application. It merely authorized attorneys to file necessary legal papers. Mooney's motion was the preliminary step in appealing from a decision by a lower court...
...confiscationalist. How It Started. More than a year ago Upton Sinclair sat down in his study to write a pamphlet called I, Governor of California And How I Ended Poverty. In it he presented his EPIC Plan. In substance it carried the far-flung Western barter-group idea one step further by making it an agency of the state. He proposed : 1) A public body called California Authority for Land (CAL), which would appropriate land which was idle, foreclosed, or to be sold for taxes, turn it over to colonies of unemployed for cultivation...
...disastrous, they had agreed to live like "brother and sister." One night Sinclair awakened to find his wife sitting up in bed getting ready to shoot herself through the head with a pistol. In such an atmosphere was born the author's impression of Princeton in The Goose-step. Manassas, the author's fourth book, was no more successful than the first three. Then for the first time in his life Upton Sinclair had a little luck. He got a publisher to send him out to Chicago to investigate working conditions in the packing industry. The result...
Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...
While Mr. Wingo's plan to give undergraduates, interested in government, a chance to work at a Department in Washington is a step in the direction of achieving a combination of theory and actual experience, there are several difficulties in the way which have been overlooked...