Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like most "Yankee publications" you can't resist the temptation to have your dirty, untruthful dig at Southerners, but this time you are not content to censure and abuse the living, you must take a dirty crack at the dead. The sentences to which I refer [TIME, Oct. 1] read in this manner: ''As unique as its cooking is the South's propensity for sending strange characters as its ambassadors to the U. S. Senate. Because of the political degeneracy of the one-party system, the incompetence of the Deep South's voters...
...dollar. I don't think it is necessary now, but it may be in time and I am not unalterably opposed to it.'' He reminded reporters that an Act of Congress would be required to authorize the President to reduce the dollar's gold content below the 50% limit set last year. "I think it might help. Prices must go higher. I agree with the President on that." And less than an hour later. Cornell's Professor George Frederick ("Commodity Dollar") Warren, appeared at the White House to break bread with the President...
...manner." Biographer Freeman allows Lee high marks as a strategist and commander, but thinks he had weaknesses as both. Lee was sometimes too much of a gentleman, says Freeman: by not standing on his authority, letting subordinates argue and outface him, he sometimes lost military opportunities. He was usually content to outline a plan of battle, leave his commanders, who could not always be relied on to use their own judgment about the details. His staff-work was not nearly as efficient as his enemy's; he sometimes made poor use of his artillery and cavalry. Many an anecdote...
...novel of modern Paris. Men of Good Will. Last week U. S. gazers saw the third floor finished. Though it is still too soon to judge the architecture of the building, critics had already divided in their previews: some called it superb, others jerry-built. Men-in-the-street, content merely to watch the structure go up, told themselves it was beginning to look more like the real thing. Readers of the first two volumes (Men of Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved...
Baltimore, Oct. 17--The jelly-like content of the leaves of the tropical plant "aloe vera" has been used successfully in curing severe burns without leaving a sear, it was announced here today...