Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly TIME forgot that its Nov. 14, 1932 issue carried the following: ''When Rev. Dr. Enclicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton, discovered that his 184 socialite schoolboys were voting 4-to-1 against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a 'Grottie' of 1900. he halted their straw poll, ordered politics adjourned...
...there can be no doubt that the outright partisanship by General Johnson of the cause of the A. F. of L. in his speech to the assembled code authorities last week was a straw that broke, the camel's back. If the Government is to take the side of labor, and determine the method of dues paying and organization, industry is willing: but it wants the Government to supervise the labor unions for their financial affairs and every detail of the work now being done by the local organizers. In fact, Government control of labor unions may be the answer...
...first novel of David C. DeJong, author of many short stories, will be published this month, under the title of "Belly Fulla Straw." It is the story of a Dutch immigrant family in a small city in the Middle West...
BELLY FULLA STRAW-David Cornel Dejong-Knopf ($2.50). Earnest, heavy tale of the Americanization of a Dutch family...
...straw in the wind, it vindicates the optimism raised by President Conant's report; but the era of impersonal education, hack teaching, and crowded classrooms demands a greater reform than the reorganization of a single department...