Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken confidences, intimate quotations, facts from the political bedroom. It could have come only from a bitter, frustrated, able man who once was close to the President. By letting the Saturday Evening Post serialize 100,000 of his 190,000 words, Raymond Moley did not make things any better with his outraged successors in the Janizariat. They belittle it as the garrulous grousing of a "shellshocked veteran," note the overtones of its author's bruised ego. But they do not question its essential facts. In the Moley gallery...
...saying nothing. When would he rouse himself from the meditation into which the mightiest events of his time appeared to have plunged him? Always dynamic, conqueror of many an Ethiopian and Albanian, utterly fearless in denouncing the Masons, a great fellow for jumping over bayonets at Fascist parties (or, better still, having his subordinates do it) how would II Duce measure up to the strain...
...York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy of democracies," said it had no "big brother" and would accept "no ersatz for God Almighty...
...some years Harvard University's anthropological Cassandra, Professor Earnest Albert Hooton, has incessantly trumpeted that mankind is on the biological skids, that man had better find out what to do about it and then do it before it is too late. That was his message in Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and that is still his message in Twilight of Man, published last week.* "Here," says Dr. Hooton, "is more raucous crying in the wilderness. . . . Human behavior has continued to deteriorate." Hooton feels that his is a voice in a wilderness because: 1) men like...
...retailers about the same) with big manufacturers standing out by voting 100% "yes." They also believe that unionism has hurt (48.4%) the U. S. more than it has helped (31.8%), that if the unions were to merge into one big powerful union business would be better off (42.9%), worse off (38.5%). Greatest faults of unions at present: unreliable, racketeering, unreasonable leadership. Greatest virtues: raised wages, maintained a living wage, improved working conditions...