Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's first proposal of Reorganization (TIME, May 8) was passed promptly by the House. Less controversial, Reorganization II was promptly put to the test in the Senate. Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, prime friend of Reorganization, asked the committee in charge to report an adverse resolution on Reorganization II. It did so and Jimmy Byrnes got the resolution beaten in full Senate, thus assuring Reorganization II against Congressional veto...
...first two men, Dave Burt and Captain Langdon Gilkey, who also form the number one doubles pair. These two players are very evenly matched; thus far Burt has kept the number one position because of his impressive record in outside matches, despite the fact that Gilkey won the only test match they have played. The secret of Burt's success is his steadiness and accuracy combined with an extraordinarily fine competitive temperament which has brought him victory over Mattman, Bellis, and Ryder, number one of Miami, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina respectively...
...Craft is 38-year-old George Yates, who last week not only had sold the first plane (to Portland Restaurateur Paul F. Ryan) but had been informed that from now on he will have more financial backing, can soon produce the Geodetics in quantity. After his partner and test pilot Allen David Greenwood, Oregon Aeronautics Inspector, had landed from the flight over town, jubilant Builder Yates announced that a syndicate of Portland citizens would shortly begin construction of a plane factory...
French Cinemactress Annabella last month, the first test of whether matrimony will cut down his phenomenal feminine following. Slushed Louella ("Lolly") Parsons in her Hearst column last fortnight: "Frankly, and if I can judge by the batch of letters that have come to this desk recently, the youngsters are brokenhearted (at least for the moment) over the marriage of their hero, Ty Power. Mildred and Harold Lloyd told me their two daughters practically went into a decline when they heard...
...Quincy, Mass., not far from the starting-point of his ancestor's famed midnight ride, Paul Revere, 22, handyman, passed his auto driving test...