Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Out of it came the current issue of Editor & Publisher. It was no 50-page regular weekly issue of the Press's No. 1 tradepaper but a glittering, gilt-coated volume of 320 pages. The legend on the cover told the story: GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER-1884-1934. Backward through a series of competitors which it had absorbed during half a century, Editor & Publisher traced its origin to a 12-page sheetlet called The Journalist...
...spruce Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg. With his nameless mate Oscar spends his winters in Africa, as do most East Prussian storks, but summer finds him always back at Neudeck to bring not babies but good luck to the 86-year-old Reichspräsident. In backward, superstitious East Prussia nothing is so unlucky for a great landed Junker as to lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul. Last week Oscar, dozing on the President's roof with one leg tucked under...
...overestimated. If we stamp our feet, they will scurry to their holes like mice. We have the power and we will keep it. Our power is absolutely unlimited. Not even the Crown Prince can take it away from us, because the people are behind us. Reactionaries point backward; we point forward...
...President Roosevelt intended to send Congress a message on "social legislation." At a subsequent conference with newshawks he wondered aloud how such erroneous information could have got abroad, for he had no such intention. Last week, after the Republican National Committee had met in Chicago and found the country "backward in social legislation" (see p. 15), the President suddenly changed his mind. His message demanded no action from the outgoing Congress. Avoiding most controversial issues it was couched in such general, promising and reassuring terms that politicians took it simply as the Dem-ocratic platform for the 1934 Congressional election...
...Better Business Bureau of New York City, reviewing the business year ended May 1, reported that promoters of the timeworn "sell and switch" racket* were still active, that "gyp" stock vendors had continued to flourish as of old under the Securities Act largely because the Federal Government had been backward about criminal prosecutions. Declared the Bureau: "An examination of the registrations under the Federal law reveals that by far the greater percentage of registrations was of highly speculative enterprises. Most promoters of such enterprises are deterred but little by responsibilities of civil liability which, under the act, rests upon offerers...