Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basic requirement of the numbers game is a figure published daily in the newspapers. Until 1930 the most popular figures were the New York Clearing House daily clearings and balances. In that year, after numerous attempts had been made to bribe staid Clearing House employes for advance information, Manhattan dailies ceased to print the figures. It was a futile gesture, for the bigtime numbers bankers simply shifted to other figures. Butter, egg and stock sales are used in combination for the game in Winston-Salem, N. C. Every important newspaper takes elaborate precautions to see that any figures likely...
...event of basic world importance which took place last week occurred in China. It was as if Hitler had been kidnapped by Goring or Stalin by Voroshilov. In fact the most powerful man in Eastern Asia had been kidnapped last week by one of his potent and ambitious countrymen, a Chinese who not many years ago was under treatment in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping for addiction to opium. Kidnappee was the Premier of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the military conqueror of his country not many years ago (TIME, April 25, 1927). Kidnapper was "The Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-liang...
...Prince Edward, did the eldest son of the Royal House enter London. This idol of the British masses (for such His Majesty unquestionably was) vanished, and after a little space other idols (for such King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and crown princess Elizabeth will soon be) were substituted. The basic English truth which emerged is that the Kingdom long ago became and is today neither a democracy nor a monarchy but an efficient oligarchy, more or less benevolent. Its symbol is the Crown, but the really effective British crowns are the top hats worn by Stanley Baldwin...
...declared that church boards now might well put their money in stocks rather than bonds. And in view of frequent churchly criticisms of Business, the Federal Council should appoint a committee to tell the churches what companies are "run according to Jesus Christ." Moderator Babson diagnosed Protestantism's basic trouble as its declining birth rate, thus perplexing listeners who recalled that a year and a half ago he was for birth control as a cure for poverty...
...serving a much nobler cause." Surrealism in plainer language is an attempt to explore the subconscious mind and to evoke emotional reactions through the illogical juxtaposition of objects. The difference between the cubists and present day abstract painters on one hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters think of their pictures and statues as objects devoid of meaning, sufficient unto themselves. Surrealist art is still based on reproduction, one reason that its ablest exponents cling to the finicky technique of Victorian miniature painters...