Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locks of the Panama Canal, Cordell Hull debarked to pay tribute to Panama's President Juan Demostenes Arosemena. Delegate Alf M. Landon got off to pay non-partisan tribute to Cordell Hull: "The good neighbor policy has been made a realistic policy instead of a phrase to catch the imagination...
...your Year's men-the Chinese Generalissimo and the Emperor of Ethiopia-got the living bejesus beat out of 'em. Maybe the same jinx would catch Hitler. CHARLES B. WILLIAMS Rome...
Thomas the Cynic assures Mr. W. that his inhibited childhood, his artistic frustration, fake War record, headaches and schizophrenia constitute excellent personal assets for a dictator. He explains how these handicaps can be turned into heroic myths, explains how to fight Socialism with the catch phrases of Socialism, how to provoke disorder and terror as a pretext to establish order, how to avoid all argument based on rationality, how to exploit the plentiful relics of primitive barbarism which still survive in modern man, and thus turn to Fascist account a Freudian discovery which Socialists naively underrated...
...speedily disabused. Not only did the Federal Communications Commission last week begin hearings on monopoly in radio but Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice revealed that it was sniffing monopoly spoor in the building-trade industry; and in Chicago Mr. Arnold's bloodhounds treed the biggest monopoly catch since the oil industry went on trial in Madison year ago-the milk and ice cream industry...
...final irony of Coolidge's life was that he began to catch up on his times only when he was out of office. Retired to Northampton, turning out his autobiography at $5 a word and a short syndicated column at $3.25 a word, brooding disgustedly over Hoover's shortcomings, watching his gilt-edged investments sink lower & lower, Coolidge at last confessed private doubt that "the business of America is business." "In other periods of depression," he admitted, "it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope...