Word: warns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats. As the party in power, Democrats debouched upon the nation from Washington. To crucial Pennsylvania-for which Harry Hopkins last fortnight authorized 10,000 new WPA jobs-went Postmaster General Farley to warn a $100-a-plate dinner in Philadelphia that nothing could so comfort Republicans as to win back Pennsylvania, which they lost four years ago. Result in funds raised...
...When an airplane climbs so steeply that its wings lose lifting power, it stalls, falls. Last week Langley Field engineers introduced a gadget that senses the loss of lift, blows a horn to warn the pilot...
...Chicago Airport, at the start of one evening's rush hour, suddenly went black. A main supply cable of the Commonwealth Edison Company had failed. Due between seven and nine were a dozen planes, 100 passengers. Unable to warn them because the airport's 14 radio transmitters were dead, quick-thinking operations men dashed to ships still on the ground, flashed the word aloft over battery-run airliner radios...
...sense that it despises capitalism as a creation of unheroic middle-class poltroons, the Japanese Army has for years been radical. Last week. War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki made a statement which gave Japanese capitalists the jitters. Ostensibly the War Minister spoke to warn Japan of Communist dangers and the need of greater efforts to down China, but General Itagaki sounded as though he had just been studying the history of how Russia has subordinated the forces of production to State control and developed heavy industry for military purposes...
...exclusively among WPA workers, 2) be contributed to any party war-chest, 3) spent by anyone but the Workers Alliance-for pamphlets, mass meetings, radio time to tell the unemployed where their "interests" in the Congressional campaign lie. Unimpressed, Chairman Sheppard last week wrote to President Lasser: "Personally, I warn you . . . not to carry out this proposed plan. . . . If you proceed. . . and if the committee should agree with my interpretation of the law, it is my intention to request the committee to refer the matter to the Department of Justice...