Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game law, they faced possible sentences of $10,000 fine, two years' imprisonment. After a silence of more than three months Biological Survey agents, who had arranged with the U. S. District Attorney to be kept in touch with the case, went to that official, asked about its progress. They were told that the Walleys had walked into Federal Court fortnight before, pleaded guilty, been dismissed on payment of $25 fines. Investigation by furious game protectors disclosed that the Walleys were members of an old Mississippi family who exert considerable influence in their State's politics. Their late...
Last week Republican Senator Lester J. Dickinson of Iowa, who knows nothing good of the New Deal, lifted his vibrant voice in the Senate to excoriate Works Progress Administration. Scornfully he cried: "We are told over and over again by the President, Hopkins and Farley that there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds...
...reply, I beg to state that, if you will furnish this office with a letter of recommendation from the Democratic chairman of your county or Reynolds' manager, I will be more than glad to take your case up with the Works Progress Administration in Watauga County and do everything I can in an effort to help you. This procedure is followed in all instances...
...effect of this summary of progress by Sir Thomas Inskip was rather spoiled by rude Winston Churchill's loudly insisting that it was not enough...
...grind last year was only 50% larger than in 1906. "These figures offer a sobering thought in our program of promoting the consumption of agricultural goods by industry," observed Vice President Morris Sayre of Corn Products Refining Co. "There are encouraging indications that the future will bring more rapid progress, but I do not believe this nation should be led to expect industrial miracles which would suddenly gobble up more agricultural goods than the farmer can produce...