Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World Revolution. Taking a world view-and both Stalinism and Trotskyism are simply variants on the Communist world theme-the establishment of Trotsky in Mexico is almost an ideal Red setup. As the Times of London has recently pontificated, there is reason to think that broad political developments in South American lands are now nearing the splits into Fascism and Communism which are making Europe feel strange and uncomfortable. In Europe the cleavage is now so sharp that no eminent cleaver is needed, but if Communism is to make further headway in those Latin-American republics which refuse to recognize...
During the abdication crisis of Edward VIII, Lady Rhondda said in a radio broad cast: "If he [the King] marries her [Mrs. Simpson] he will offend against the standards of the old morality. On the other hand, it seems to me that the new morality which says he should marry the woman he is in love with is a cleaner, a more honest and a better morality than the old. I myself should...
Educational insurgents claim that College Board examinations not only fail to test individual intelligence but prove nothing because all marking systems are riddled with radical discrepancies due to the variations of mood and personality among examiners. Deciding to survey the broad question of "Examinations and Their Substitutes," the Carnegie Foundation inaugurated in 1931 an international inquiry, assigned Dr. Isaac Leon Kandel of Columbia's Teachers College as its U. S. investigator. Last week one section of Investigator Kandel's 175-page examination of examiners contained much salve for wounded Hunkers...
Price rises in such great world staples as wheat, cotton, rubber and copper have been as thoroughly publicized as the Roosevelt bull market. But the world is full of a number of things just as important to industrial civilization as staples. For a broad view of commodities the businessman leans on the big wholesale price indices, typical of which are those computed by Dun & Bradstreet, the Department of Labor and the Annalist, financial weekly published by the New York Times. Last week a 23-year picture of these indices looked like this...
Chief Gabrielson, an expert who has been with the Survey since 1915, reviewed its New Deal program of restoring marsh land for duck breeding grounds and refuges. Minimum requirement, said he, is 7,500,000 acres. The Survey is about halfway to that goal. But, continued the broad-beamed Chief, "there are two small groups among people who hunt who may defeat this program." One group is composed of commercial hunters, usually petty thieves and miscreants. "So long as a section of the American public will pay exorbitant prices for contraband game in restaurants, night clubs and hotels, we will...