Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agriculture he found such a change; a similar change in its insistence that the U. S. social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation, towards delegation of power to the executive. The New Deal involved no revolution: it was dangerous, on the contrary, because "In our blind groping we have stumbled into philosophies which lead to the surrender of freedom...
...came Gortatowsky. Gorty had started 33 years ago as an unpaid cub on the Atlanta Constitution. When Hearst's King Features summoned him 22 years later he was the Constitution's managing editor. He moved steadily up through the complicated Hearst hierarchy, seemed to have reached a blind alley when he became chronic assistant general manager. But last week he had moved up again...
...addition there is a "March of Time" on the Associated Press, and "Gantry the Great," which is about a blind racehorse, and fine for those who prefer horseflesh...
...horror of His Holiness: "This ferocious Ivan sits in the Kremlin in a worker's smock and after the heads of both enemies and friends have rolled, issues appeals to war to the people, regiments the wretched moujik in the Red Army, and transforms it into a blind instrument of oppression of the liberty of nations...
Last week Alec Templeton Time (NBC-Red) was the up-and-comer of the new 1939 radio shows. In two months it had won some 6,000,000 listeners. Blind, brilliant Alec Templeton's charm is no secret; his musical lampoons spare nobody, from his keyboard come chuckles for all. Once he put on an accent like Music Master Walter Damrosch's, piano-lectured theme by theme on Three Little Fishies. He embroiders five-note themes tossed up by audiences until they sound like Wagner. His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part...