Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspapers don't give us a clear picture of the situation, he said, because the Chinese are so much more skillful at propaganda than the Japanese. China is a poor land for colonizing, having a bad climate and already full of Chinese...
...have been in journalistic work for at least three years. It is hoped that a considerable number of able men of experience from all over the country will be applicants. The holder of such a fellowship would, of course, be invited to Cambridge only if he had a clear idea of the line of study he wished to pursue. Thus, a man interested in becoming an expert writer on finance, for example, might choose a year's work in economics; another with the prospect of a career as a foreign correspondent might wish to study history; or an editorial writer...
While Steichen was thus occupied, a younger generation of photographers had come along who believed that when Steichen turned his back on painting he had not turned far enough. They saw the camera as essentially a documenter of physical reality. They admired Matthew Brady's diamond-clear, sober pictures of the Civil War, Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris in the early 1900s a great deal more than Steichen's highly lit personalities in Vanity Fair. Steichen's love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice...
...methods as buying heavily at the close, issuing extravagant statements, using discretionary accounts to create an artificial demand. Reason for raising the price, implied SEC, was that Cord Corp. had underwritten some $2,800,000 in Auburn debentures convertible into common stock at $50 a share. SEC made it clear that E. F. Hutton & Co. as a company was not involved...
Representative Ludlow proposes an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting Congress from declaring war, except in case of invasion, until the nation casts a favorable vote in a general referendum. Presumably he expects that the vote would be negative. The masses have never yet demonstrated calmness and clear thinking in the face of jingoistic propaganda, but even if the vote were negative, nothing would be solved. International conditions would change, and in a week another referendum would be necessary. While the nation was busy conducting Mr. Ludlow's weekly referendums, the central government would be paralyzed. As a peace measure...