Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Dr. Gallup's doorbell-ringers sought a statistical answer to the question of whether or not people want the U. S. to participate in a world conference to avert war, TIME through its correspondents and news services traced a contour map of U. S. public opinion. Object: to break down Dr. Gallup's national totals into the kinds and degrees of war sentiment dominant in the U. S. last week prior to Franklin Roosevelt's dramatic peace invitation to the Dictators...
...case of U. S. v. Strecker (TIME, Feb. 20), the Court had to decide whether past membership in the Communist Party of the U. S. constitutes ground for deportation of an unnaturalized alien. The alien in the case is Galician-born Joseph George Strecker, a coal-digger who became a restaurant proprietor in Hot Springs, Ark. and there dallied with Communism to the extent of joining the party, but who paid dues only once. Last week the Court ruled 6-to-2 (Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting) that past membership in the Communist Party does not of itself justify deportation...
Last week Tom Pendergast's Police Director Otto Higgins resigned, wept at having to leave "the best police department in the country." While Kansas City wondered whether Tom Pendergast's machine was cracking up, Mayor Smith & Co. made a great to-do about closing gambling dens, putting clothes on dancers...
...read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent, so as to be free of obligation. Without indicating whether he thought that was enough rent for a two-year stay, Rivera handed the cash to a Marxist magazine, Cleve. Trotsky felt snubbed. Last week the two men came to a parting of the ways: Léon Trotsky announced that he was quitting the Rivera house, Diego Rivera promptly announced that...
Most of the critics, whether they liked the play or not, ostentatiously confessed ignorance of what it meant. A long, amorphous one-acter, it tells of an unsuccessful poet and his little son who live, not always even from hand-to-mouth, in a California town. Upon them stumbles an aged Shakespearean ham actor (Art Smith), a runaway from the Old Folks' Home, whose playing on a trumpet delights his hosts andthe townsfolk. The old actor finally dies spouting King Lear, and the poet and his son are evicted from their little house, take bravely to the road...