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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouted that this would modify the Johnson Act, one of the most sacred of U. S. cows, which bars loans to any government still in default on its World War I debts. But Key Pittman, a wily strategist, knew that in winning a political fight you must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser must have at least something to take home. He let the thunder roar, knowing he was on solid ground: go-day credits are usually regarded as equivalent to cash. But Cali fornia's resolute...
...times Kelly had tried for national commander of the Legion, twice getting as far as the nomination. The "kingmakers," who run Legion politics, opposed him. Stephen F. Chadwick beat him last year. But this time Kelly...
...Educational opportunities are unequal: Allyn Burleson's children in California get twice as much schooling as Brother David's in Nebraska, three times as much as Brother John's in Kentucky. At least 800,000 have no schools at all. >The teaching profession, says Smith College's retired President William Allan Neilson, consists largely of "timid and unimaginative persons to whom moderate comfort, a moderate competence, moderate security are the reward for a moderate amount of moderately conscientious drudgery...
Both coaches, Harlow and Mannie Mansfield, praised the play of Charlie Crooker's and Art Belliveau for Bates. The captain and center, Crooker was in every play, throwing back Harvard thrusts like a man with twice his 165 pounds...
...Varsity's loss to the Worcester club was a heartbreaker as the decisive tally was made by a Crimson substitute, Arthur Neff, who was playing for the opposing Swedish-American team, which was short of men. Mendell, Page and Neff all played consistently well for the Varsity; Page scoring twice, and Neff twice, once for the Crimson and once for the visitors...