Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that last sentence Chairman Doughton expressed the feeling of a large conservative wing of Democratic Congress-men-those who do not care to be tagged with the label of "soaking the rich." To 'avoid that label many a Congressman would like to see the President's tax proposals broadened to include others than multimillionaires. Progressive Senator La Follette favors reducing personal income tax exemptions. Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan asserted...
...schoolteachers on a holiday jaunt to Mexico City, counted themselves very lucky last week when, hardly out of New York harbor on the 5.5. Oriente bound for Havana, they fell in with a voluble group of Manhattan intellectuals. Leader of their new friends was Clifford Odets, able young left-wing author of three (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) of the twelve plays now running on Broadway. Among Odets' 14 companions were a Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national women's debating champion, a War veteran...
Phase No. 2 commences when, haled into court for petty larceny, she is taken under the wing of a fatuous matron named Mrs. Parker (Katharine Alexander) who thinks Ginger good copy for a proposed book on child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time...
Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...
...wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, the new bomber is of three-ply all-metal construction. It is powered with four 800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps-first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors. The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing's fuselage is designed to carry bomb-racks, it would need but slight modification to become a commercial airliner...