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...each state should experiment with the various theories, and that "out of such experience should come the most practical answer to each individual case," whether it be that of the so-called Wisconsin Reserve Plan or some other sort. Actually the greatest asset of unemployment insurance rests in the blanket protection it affords to both employer and employee. The proposed plan, now being formulated in several states, wherein the employers are generously allowed to contribute to the fund and the employees to stand cheering on the sidelines, would defeat the whole purpose of the bill both in cooperation and spirit...
President Roosevelt, it was generally agreed, had made something of a masterstroke. He had negotiated Soviet recognition exactly in time to blanket with its headlines news of the then ugly farm strike. He had exacted some sort of religious guarantees from the Soviet Union, which on paper made pious U. S. citizens rejoice. And he had picked as his Ambassador to Moscow, keen, dynamic, ambitious William Christian Bullitt of Philadelphia...
...produced when warm, wet air encounters cold water, cold ground or cold air which condenses the moisture into droplets ranging from .00004 to .0008 of an inch in diameter. Thus last week's great pall was accompanied by unseasonal warmth. It was really a double blanket : an ocean fog caused by high pressure over the Atlantic and a land fog caused by low pressure over the Ohio and Mississippi valleys...
German comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides like a centaur, drives like a state policeman. He did his bit in the War ("We had slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls in love with him at sight. Conscious of the fact that she is "not a lady," that she has a far-off husband with whom she does...