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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams' committee were asked by David Lasser, head of the Workers Alliance: "Is the majority in this Congress trying deliberately to provoke a situation of social disorder?"; were told by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, president of the United States Conference of Mayors: "Havoc will be rife throughout the nation." A committee of actors & artists visited Washington bearing petitions with 200,000 signatures demanding continuance of WPA arts projects. Cafeteria, hotel & restaurant workers telegraphed en masse. Senator Adams got one telegram which was delivered as follows: "Are you a man or a delete...
...Cabinet declared martial law throughout Loyalist Spain. There was no panic as Rebel planes flew over Barcelona in almost continuous bombing raids (General Franco himself had a look at the city from the air and was shot at), as the city lived what might well be its last hours under the Spanish Republic. When a Loyalist squadron gave fight to Rebel attackers in a midday raid, the people ran out in the streets and cheered wildly. The rumble of Rebel artillery was distinctly heard. Until martial law was declared movies were still crowded, the opera was beginning another series. Evacuation...
Despite the police crackdown, the bombings continued throughout the week and several more attempts, all unsuccessful, were made to damage Britain's vital public services. On the west coast of Eire, an abortive attempt was made to damage a hotel in Tralee where bespectacled, 25-year-old Francis Chamberlain, only son of the Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial...
...snowy mountains at Montpelier, Vermont's legislators-mostly Republicans as they have been throughout the New Deal, mostly farmers like their Governor, mostly thrifty taciturn New Englanders-made history: they cheered. They also petitioned Congress 1) to make Secretary Woodring approve the Ompompanoosuc contract, 2) to repeal that section of the Flood Control Act of 1938 which so invades States' rights. Most noteworthy of all, they voted Governor Aiken $67,500 of Vermont's carefully guarded money to fight the case through the U. S. Supreme Court if need...
...America at Its Best" will be the title of a free, public, illustrated lecture tomorrow afternoon at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 4 o'clock. The speaker will be John B. Breed '40, who has traveled extensively throughout America...