Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt, ever apt at Compromise, worked out an agreement aimed to conciliate the beet industry, to help Cuba and regain the U. S. market there. He proposed (TIME, Feb. 19) to quota sugar production for the beet industry and provide import quotas for the U. S. islands and for Cuba. With sugar made a basic commodity and imports controlled, a processing tax would be applied in the U. S. to subsidize beet sugar producers. The quotas which the President proposed were liberal to U.S. producers compared to past performances...
...collegiate aspect despite never having gone to college. He rarely speaks his mind, but when he does he uses a language racy and rich with anatomical allusions, forceful expletives. Studious-looking with his glasses on, he might be taken for a young college instructor. Without glasses he is more apt to resemble a high-pressure magazine salesman. He has two sons by his first wife, who died in 1930. In 1931 he married Virginia Kirk Tharpe. With their baby Nancy (the two boys are at military school in the East) the Cords live in a fine home in Beverly Hills...
...speculator," wrote Arthur William Cutten in the Satevepost few years ago. "I like to make money. There is a thrill in the actual process unequaled by any emotion a man of my years is apt to experience." Last week spare, tight-lipped Speculator Cutten experienced another emotion. The Federal Government, after examining his grain transactions over a long period, cracked down and bade him show cause why he should not be barred from trading in all U. S. contract markets. No less important a New Dealer than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as titular head of the Grain Futures Administration...
...thinking, economic questions of the day are considered in a purely subsidiary light. It is the general outlines of economic theory, rather than the details of its structure, which are presented the student. Although he may develop during the year the desired line of attack, he is apt to feel that he has learned less about economics than he wished...
...China. But unless some Power or group of states is prepared to fight, these "pious hopes expressed in general terms" will be useless, and Japan will secure exactly what she desires. In any event, the western powers may console themselves with the thought that Japan has been an apt pupil. Too apt for comfort! CONFUCIUS...