Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems beside the point and decidedly counter to TIME'S aims and standing ... to repeat and enlarge on a thing like this-"Thaw Perennial" [TIME, June 18]-when so many more interesting and profitable incidents are passed over or forgotten entirely. Why-oh why-should decent people be reminded continually of this shameful affair...
...Yale's greatest teachers, a figure in the campaign of 1932, the New Haven Journal-Courier suggests that "Mr. Roosevelt has used some of Sumner's phrases, to be sure, but only by a cruel mayhem on their context." That is undoubtedly true; the new deal runs counter to much of the economics that Sumner taught, also to much that Arthur T. Hadley taught, both as a professor of economics and after he because Yale's president...
Excluded from these allotments were importers of goods Germany must have: wool, cotton, hides, furs, basic metals. But these importers are under direct Government supervision. Hence, last week's reductions at once set up a counter-wall against the boycott and tightened Nazidom's hold on private German business...
Focus of the fight was: 1) a mass of detailed criticism of particular NRA codes from the Darrow artillery; 2) an equally detailed counter-volley from NRA's Counsel, Donald Richberg. Mr. Darrow was for a strong Leftward swing by NRA toward Socialism. General Johnson stoutly defended the patchwork job he had done for Capitalism. Mr. Sinclair engaged in a flanking fire upon the Darrow board's methods and conclusions. The gist of their viewpoints...
...Nashville, Tenn. grocery counter walked an unknown man. He looked down at the penny-candy showcase, at the orange jelly stars, at foot-long black ropes of licorice, at mauve-brown tootsie rolls, at chocolate bottles of syrupy liqueurs, at inch-square cubes of yellow honeycombed sponge molasses. The man sighed, cleared his voice huskily: "Thirty-five years ago I stole two of your penny candies. It's been bothering me ever since. This is the least my conscience will let me give you.'' He laid a $5 bill on the counter, walked away...