Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel, "Come in at the Door," is laid in the Delta country of the Mississippi, but also because a dark and forbidding pessimism is the net result of a somewhat unreal tale in which death, crime, and violence play their full part. To consider March a mental step-child of Faulkner is, however, extremely unjust. "Come in at the Door" is March's second novel, and, obviously an experiment in form, it likewise leaves a strong impression of being all experiment in subject matter and in attitude. In inclines one to believe--and to hope fervently, for March's possibilities...
...Spanish Republic divides the transition from tranquility to martial law into three steps. Last December punctilious, white-haired Premier Alejandro Lerroux declared a "state of prevention." Last week he took the second step by declaring a "state of alarm." Still ahead was a "state of martial...
...their arid meadows, bravely but without much recompense. One full year with the Shaw family and their neighbors makes rural life seem as lively as a cycle on Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George's wife prepares to run away. In the summer young Ollie Shaw flirts with Doris...
Thus did President Roosevelt, shocked and grieved by the death list of Army pilots and hounded by Republican Congressmen charging "legalized murder," retrace one step on his politically unfortunate course on the airmail situation. General Foulois answered by suspending all Army mail service for a few days while he and his aides conferred with Post Office officials on elimination of routes and schedules. Tentatively they planned to fly about 40% of the mileage formerly covered by private operators. A House Committee announced it would find out what, if anything, was wrong with the Air Corps' planes. While the President...
...Another step was made this weekend by Dr. Joao Fradrico Normano, former lecturer on economics at Harvard, and associate director of the Burean of Economic research in South America, in his fight against extradition to "Germany to stand trial for a $750,000 swindle...