Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Occasion of the speech was the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the U. S. Constitution by 38 delegates in Philadelphia. Having made the Constitution the most controversial U. S. political subject of the year, the President took the opportunity to define his views on it, emphasize the familiar theme that in the past four years the Supreme Court has obstructed the will of the U. S. electorate by legalistic interpretations...
Taxation. Only tangible understanding reached was a high resolve to do something about conflicting taxation. Thumping the same theme as other Governors, New York's Lehman declared that the Federal Government was "almost monopolizing" some of the best tax fields, that if State income taxes were hiked to Federal levels the total tax bill in the higher brackets would exceed actual income. Eight of the ten tax sources from which New York gets more than four-fifths of its revenues were also tapped by the Federal Government. Since the Federal Government tends to win in all such conflicts...
Throughout the serious daytime sessions the dominant theme was the historic conflict of State and Federal authority-a conflict in which the Governors and their predecessors for 150 years had been reluctantly giving ground. Wyoming's Miller urged interchange of State data to eliminate gasoline-tax evasion. Handsome Governor Allred of Texas delivered a thoughtful appeal for closer co-operation between State parole boards. The rest of the speeches, almost without exception, were devoted to encroachment of Federal power. Topics of discussion and typical ejaculations...
Education. One bitter theme was Federal aid for local schools. South Carolina's Johnston: "We should be as jealous of individual liberty in education as we are of individual liberty in religion. . . . South Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education...
Baltic Deputy (Lenfilm). A universally noble cinema theme, of which the most prominent U. S. exponent is Paul Muni (Zola, Pasteur), is the life story of the great-hearted man of science. To be worth his epitaph in Russia, however, a scientist must also hew to the Marxian line. Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema...