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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreseeing the dissolution of the G.O.P., he frankly invited the U. S. electorate to form two new parties which he named Liberal and Conservative. In his Liberal party he wanted Labor and the Farmers as well as underprivileged Forgotten Men. Last week's election was the first national test of this projected grand sashay...
...quotable fellow," he tells interviewers, "just a quiet guy." The quiet guy's big job is to get Fair Standards safely started through the courts by selecting a series of sound, definitive cases for immediate test. His chief source of worry on this score is the possibility of ill-chosen cases filed by employes...
...modern world's strong men, once called by Britain's Lord Balfour the "most terrible of all the terrible Turks," Atatürk nevertheless left his country with all the forms of democracy intact. To those who looked last week at Turkey as the first real test of what happens when a dictator dies, the answer could be given that Atatürk, admirer of parliamentary government, was not a dictator in the same sense as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Those democratic forms which Atatürk nurtured functioned well last week. For a day Abdulhalik Renda...
...curiosity test, in which a record of someone reading "Moby Dick" is played very softly over a loudspeaker, was unsuccessfully tried with some local talent the other day. "Children are so used to radios now that they didn't pay any attention," Dr. Dyk explained yesterday. "I think I'll try putting it in the closet...
This week both the simple and elaborate methods of rival motormakers in gauging public opinion take their annual road-test at the 1939 Automobile Show in Manhattan. The 200 glittering, four-wheeled debutantes now arrayed in Grand Central Palace and soon to appear in 30 other shows throughout the U. S. have many a new selling-point, gadget, mechanical feature (see p. 77). The numerous changes in this year's cars are striking evidence of the motor industry's urge to give the public exactly what it wants. In the creation of some of the new car features...