Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the enthusiasm of the Communist Deputies. Their 72 votes are indispensable to the Blum Cabinet, and instructions had come from Moscow last week to make the Premier acutely conscious of this fact. Therefore Communist Deputies who usually cheer Blum & Auriol sat stone-faced last week through their appeals to a Chamber in which only the Socialists cheered...
...President and his Secretary of State were conscious, if other citizens were not, that last week was Foreign Trade Week. The final day was called National Maritime Day. Because foreign trade is his particular baby, Mr. Hull read a radio address for Mr. Roosevelt. Excerpts: "Foreign trade is the lifeblood of shipping ... an indispensable part of prosperous economic activity throughout the land." Mr. Hull also made some remarks of his own. Aiming squarely at II Duce's week-old pronouncement of self-sufficiency for Italy, timed shrewdly for London's current Imperial Conference whose outcome may decide...
...nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings as of their fame. cites an Irish murderer and an opponent of Patrick Henry to prove it. "Even the best of us," says he. "have ancestors who were not ping-pong players...
Last year three important U. S. churches, the Methodist, Evangelical & Reformed and Disciples of Christ, disowned the commission which appoints chaplains. Many a U. S. churchman would strip the chaplain of his rank and uniform. Of this the Association meeting in Chicago last week was acutely conscious, but an estimated 90% of its membership is satisfied with the chaplaincy as now constituted, and the matter was not publicly discussed. Said one chaplain loftily: "We prefer to emphasize our principles by example rather than debate." Said U. S. Chief of Chaplains Alva Jennings Brasted: "We have no grievance against anyone. Countless...
...Picture-conscious in a big way since its Wirephoto service was founded in 1935, the Associated Press hopefully submitted many a print to the second annual National News-Photo Contest run by Editor & Publisher, newsmen's trade weekly. Last week the magazine's judges announced the winners: first, John Lindsay for Working on the Levee, a rhythmic frieze of Negro convicts toting sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken...