Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...massed on the slick green lawns of Washington's Sylvan Theatre. 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...
...Glascock County, cotton farmers who were short of help offered cotton pickers in Warren County 75? a 100 lb., plus a drink of corn whisky morning and evening. Following this, farmers in Warren County, where pickers were getting 40? a 100 lb. and no drinks, took shotguns to their fields. Said Warrenton's Sheriff, G. P. Hogan...
...made friends, was "persuaded" to join the nationalist Amerikadeutscher Volksbund. Soon he was put in charge of Bund propaganda activities. Back in Chicago fortnight ago Metcalfe exchanged notes with Brother James Metcalfe and Mueller, who had also done extensive prowling among German-Americans. Together with Managing Editor Ruppel they took over the Times's first nine pages to reveal "Secrets of Nazi Army in U. S. A.-by Times men who joined it!" Sample secret: "The regimented tread of marching men under the flaming Nazi swastika resounds from coast to coast in the United States today. In uniforms strangely...
...past two years Monsignor Haas has spent most of his time in Wisconsin, where he was born 48 years ago, as rector of St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee and member of the State Labor Board. He returns to Catholic University, where in 1922 he took his Ph.D. with a thesis on "Mediation in the Men's Garment Industry," to emphasize the Church's economic teachings, train priests and laymen in organizing social-minded Catholic groups, apply moral laws to economic life. At the University Monsignor Haas will encounter, among other kindred priests, a newly-appointed philosophy professor, Monsignor...
With the Reserve Board's move creating not confidence but more confusion, Wall Street came to the inevitable conclusion that it was all the fault of the New Deal. Last month Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay took the unprecedented step of warning the Securities & Exchange Commission that the thinness of trading, resulting directly from, market regulation, would in time produce "abnormal market conditions" (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week President Gay's gloom seemed justified indeed...