Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this does not solve the problem of the unemployed. The communicant hopes in a later letter to discuss ways and means of solving this problem by other means than that of oppressing that group which constitutes "the very life and substance of society." And for the moment we are content to say with Summer: "If it is desired to bring about social improvements, bring us a scheme for relieving the Forgotten Man of some of his burdens." The first step in such a scheme should be to suggest to President Roosevelt that a re-reading of "The Forgotten Man" might...
...young toilers of the Fascists state aspire to leadership they must be content to think as their obdurate leader does and to allow him to do their thinking for them. Any "school of politics" operating under such conditions must necessarily be a school for the dissemination of propaganda and not one which encourages free thinking. Equality of opportunity, as respects the attaining of leadership in governmental activities, will only come as the rule of the masses is supplanted by the rule of reason. And unfortunately for the world only idealistic romanticists indulge in envisaging any such ideal state of affairs...
This twice-cover-to-cover TIME-addict sees a possible grave danger in the growing tendency of TIME advertisers to imitate editorial content so cleverly that one must look twice to determine what is news and what is advertising...
...became involved in countless lawsuits with Elias Howe and other sewing machine inventors. Founder Singer paid his lawyer, Edward P. Clark, in Singer stock, and it was not long before Mr. Clark's interest was as big as Mr. Singer's. But Founder Singer was quite content to leave the business in Mr. Clark's hands, departing for Europe, there to live a gay and gaudy life, in which there are legends of no less than nine wives and 21 children. The Clarks ruled Singer for two generations with Frederick G. Bourne as their president. The innumerable...
...with congenital coyness ought to be drowned in his own pink ink. Samuel Eliot Morison is one of the ensiost and most sympathetic men to work with I have ever known. His ability as a stylist and an orator renders his lectures as interesting as their lueld, well-proportioned content. He dramatizes the past. One does not have to remember much of what he says; it simply becomes an integral part of one's working knowledge at first shot...