Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance the powers of Tennessee Valley Authority. The Senate passed the measure last May. The House Military Affairs Committee, having heard many grievous charges against TVA by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, June 3), first tabled the bill, then by a slim margin reported it out in a revised version. As they came before the House, these TVAmendments, instead of enlarging, considerably restricted TVAuthority...
Last week, its work done, the Glass committee emerged from its solitude with a bill which was promptly approved with few changes by the full Senate Banking & Currency Committee. Not a line of the House version had been retained except the first phrase: "This act may be cited as the 'Banking Act of 1935.' " And in Capitol parlance the Eccles Bill became the Glass Bill. Said the Gentleman from Virginia: "It's a damn sight better bill than the original." Said Banking & Currency Chairman Fletcher who generally disagrees with Senator Glass: "It's a fairly good compromise and better than...
Chief distinction of My Life on the Frontier is its spectacular version of an old Western childhood. When Miguel Antonio Otero was a boy his father was a commission merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild Ellsworth, Kans., to wilder Hays City, where little Miguel saw Wild Bill Hickok kill one man, heard stories of his killing three more. He moved them from wicked Sheridan to the hunters' paradise of Kit Carson, at a time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains...
...less realistic medium of the theatre. In operatic cinema, this complex convention applies even more strongly, since it confers the additional advantage of making it unnecessary to compose a lot of new music. Love Me Forever is therefore both an original story and a sort of sugar-coated version, once removed, of La Boheme, in which Miss Moore, as Mimi, finally makes her gala debut...
...officers to discourage them, were used at first as laborers, were eventually trained and employed as troops. Southerners, if they penetrate so deeply into Du Bois's history, may quarrel with his account of the success of the former slaves in battle, as well as with his version of the softening Southern attitude toward slaves during the war, but they must face his facts that Lee himself, just before his final surrender, was contemplating using Negro troops, that Southern leaders planned to grant slaves their freedom if they would fight in defense of slavery...