Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat of the presidential campaign of 1936, the local Democratic headquarters received a telephone call. '"Say," a voice exclaimed, "tell us just what the principles of the New Deal are-we're having an argument." "Hold the phone," was the answering injunction, followed by a long pause. Then: "Sorry. We're having an argument...
Mistakes. "It makes no difference to me whether you call it a recession or a depression." But Depression II was not like Depression I. The national income, having risen from 1932's low of 38 billion dollars to 70 billions in 1937, was now, he hoped, going down only to around 60 billions. ". . . Banking and business and farming are not falling apart like the one-hoss shay as they did in the terrible winter of 1932-33." Then Franklin Roosevelt made an ingratiating admission: "Last year mistakes were made by the leaders of Private Enterprise, by the leaders...
...Chinese have long built dikes. Rising floor and walls have made the river an aqueduct, lifted its surface at high water as much as 30 feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that peasants of the area call it "China's Sorrow," "The Ungovernable," "The Scourge of the Sons of Han."* Like a sluggish whiplash the river has many times changed its channel...
...John Sloan, was overshadowed by a big British show. To signalize better Anglo-Italian relations, England, which sent no art to Venice's biennial two years ago, shipped 24 Epstein bronzes, 25 paintings by Christopher Wood, a roomful of work by Stanley Spencer, led enthusiastic Italian critics to call the British show the finest in the history of the biennial. C. In Paris, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's Three Centuries of American Art, most extensive U. S. show ever held in Europe (TIME, May 23), drew bigger crowds than any recent Paris exhibition, attentive critical...
...romantic paintings by N. C. Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...