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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally Senator Robinson took up the cudgels. He spoke as Senator Robinson has not spoken in many months. Said...
...Lewis personally called off his 40,000 coal miners, Colonel Janeway disarmed Mayor Shields's vigilantes and Johnstown settled down to its first taste of martial law since the 1889 flood. C.I.O. picket lines, now unnecessary, were withdrawn. Despite Mayor Shields's cry of "usurpation," Colonel Janeway took over full police powers where they touched on the strike, sending the local police back to their beats or traffic posts. Otherwise the civil authority was not disturbed...
...questions about two of his constituents. Did Squire Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park,* did Squire Henry Morgenthau of Fishkill, report their gentlemen-farming costs as business expenses in the "unethical" fashion in which other rich men treated racing stables, chicken farms, and yachts? Mrs. Roosevelt took notice of the question raised by Columnist David Lawrence- whether having checks for her radio performances turned over directly to charity was a form of tax avoidance (TIME, June 14). Without directly answering his question, she said: "On every penny of income I have received, I've paid my full...
This week Premier Blum took his "full powers" demand back to the Senate and both legislative chambers again excitedly prepared to keep open all night. With two successive Chamber votes of confidence behind him, the Premier had every opportunity to make the kind of fighting speech so much admired in France and force the Senate's hand. Even his Senate enemies admitted that if he made the vote one of confidence this time he could probably force a victory-since the Senate would not want to upset a Cabinet so strongly backed in the Chamber. Instead of showing spirit...
...other. The two started vaulting to equal heights, soon were breaking records in partnership. Meadows did 13 ft. 11½ in. by the end of freshman year, Sefton an even 14 ft. With almost monotonous regularity they tied for national and intercollegiate titles during the next two years. Meadows took the Olympic title alone last year, but twice this spring the Trojan "twins" have vaulted to identical heights to smash the accepted world's record of 14 ft. 6½ in. held by Oregon's George Varoff. At the Stanford-U.S.C. dual meet they soared...