Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repudiate his good deeds at the end, the picture makes him a durably heroic if somewhat implausible personage, handling the affairs of nations as though they were rabbits in a hat. Instead of dating the story emphatically in the future by showing passenger flights, televisioned speeches and the aftermath of a war between Japan and the U. S., Britain and France, the picture tries to be as contemporaneous and local as possible, makes an army of unemployed resemble last summer's B. E. F. Typical shots: The President forbidding his Secretary of War to mobilize against the army...
...Universitys' "open mind" on the question of serving beer in the dining halls will not be made up until the municipal and state law on the subject has been made clear, it was stated yesterday at University Hall. The announcement came as the aftermath of the CRIMSON poll, in which the undergraduate body voted nearly six to one in favor of the service of beer...
...starkly from the slate. It would reach even beyond re-establishing the self curative factors which Sir Arthur Salter attests to be the property of all healthy depressions, and which were bound and buried by the enormous extensions of private credit and the contraction of trade which were the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The great thing would be the precedent for disarmament and for peace which an arms moratorium would establish...
...railroads have descended to individual vilification and perversion of my ideas. . . . They may kill me but they can't kill the idea of water transportation. Men crucified Christ once but his idea lives on. . . . The real trouble with the railroads is the aftermath of frenzied financing and excessive overcapitalization and not bus, truck, airplane, pipeline or waterway competition. Our corporation, unlike the railroads, has passed through no receivership, floated no bond issues, paid no princely salaries. I could spit out the window and retire and my retirement pay for life as a major general would be only...
...confess we may be wrong. But, particularly in a game so cleanly and decisively won as that of Saturday, it would have been an act of good sportsmanship to lot the Brown men carry off the kindling unmolested. The chief charm of football is its good sportsmanship. The Saturday aftermath was not pleasingly fragrant. -Boston Traveller...