Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Performance is even more important to a circus than novelty and this year John Ringling has banked more heavily on it than ever. There are no new major performers. But Con Colleano, the only man on earth who can turn a front somersault and land upright on a tight wire without cutting himself in two, is as exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what...
While Madrid police were carrying out a government order to seize all copies of a local Fascist newspaper two things happened last week. The Socialist Cabinet of Premier Manuel Azana received a vote of confidence 201 to 1, and Madrid youths marched through the Capital shouting: "Abajo con Hitler! Fuera con Fascismo!" ("Down with Hitler-out with Fascism...
...second term; less anxiety strain on the President's health; less need for hypocrisy; less control of the President by the Party; more freedom of presidential leadership; more time to carry out a program; more prestige; Party freedom from the tradition of renominating its President, etc. Arguments con: hypothetical need for a second term in time of national emergency (war, depression); increased irresponsibility of the President to the people, etc. (These con arguments apply equally to the second term under present system...
...cupboard attitude. Achievement is enhanced by physical handicap. Along with your range and terseness your great asset is your lifelike picturing of humans and happenings. Carry on, TIME. A. S. MACGREGOR East Aurora, X. Y. No clear majority of readers "commands otherwise." Scores of letters through last week: 238 con, 252 pro. This TIME construes as a firm mandate to continue mirroring Nature with respect to President-elect Roosevelt, since objectors far more prone to write than approvers. Managers Praised . . . Congratulations on Jan. 9 issue, which shows TIME'S managerial staff as wide awake as its editorial half! JOHN...
...hope many more will express their views and give facts in support thereof, as I would consider the question from every angle in a book on the subject. If you cannot publish all the letters received, please forward them to me, and also invite your readers, pro or con. to write me direct. No matter how hard they hit. I shall appreciate their honest opinions, as a member for many years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...