Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other government agencies where no compromise is possible. Either the AAA must beat a complete retreat, or we must accept a thorough-going socialistic regime. Either the government must have absolute control of land, people, and industry in order to coordinate all the factors in production, or government must allow individual initiative relatively complete freedom. It is an inescapable choice which lies before us. Yet the present administration does not clearly recognize this fact, apparently thinks it is possible to exist half-slave and half-free...
Politics does not allow any New Dealer to love a possible Republican candidate for President. Nor does it allow WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, still struggling to fulfill the President's promise to end the Federal dole,* to love Governors who do not relieve him of relief. Last week a newshawk asked Mr. Hopkins how Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas was doing his part...
...White" renown, opened recently and has been hailed as a masterful drama of New York life and its social problems. Priestley's "Eden End" is a comedy which is funny, but not quite uproariously so. "The Night of January 16th" is chiefly remarkable in that it allows a jury selected from the audience to settle its little murder mystery. Osgood Perkins" excellent comic work makes "On Stage" better than its manuscript. "Personal Appearance" presents Miss Gladys George as a big star with some very amusing lines and situations. "Pride and Prejudice" opened Wednesday night and received almost unconditional approval from...
...poetry--in his study; they were not and are not popular poems. On the other hand, poetic names, whether they be tragedies, comedies, or historical plays, have only one legitimate excuse for being: they exist in order to be performed on the stage. Stage performance is too rapid to allow for works which 'communicate before they are understood'. Understanding is essential to communication...
Slightly different is the situation in the Boston Public Library. Every important journal in the country and a representative group of foreign papers, as up to date as modern transportation will allow, are arranged geographically in the spacious newspaper room. In a part of the building which is not guarded as though under quarantine, bound editions from London, Paris, New York, Boston, Springfield, Chicago, San Francisco, and even Atlanta may be viewed at leisure. Be the explorer a genuine antiquarian, he will be shown priceless colonial papers kept in fireproof cases. The contrast between the two systems is discernible...