Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money for the new plan would simply be paid out of the Treasury. Whence it would come was a detail. The choice of new taxes under any name would be merely a matter of political convenience. Only thing agreed was that some $500,000,000 a year, about the same as under AAA, would be economically and politically desirable...
...Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through a minifying glass. She never looked at her Missal because "books are a distraction to me. ... I have so many things to tell Him." At 12 she was impatient to become a Daughter of Charity. At 14 she vowed herself to chastity. Her lingering death from tuberculosis was a summing...
...enclosure herewith "reveals" in greater detail the "Retire at Birth Plan," officially, "The Perpetual Prosperity Plan," to which you refer in your "Michigan's Main" election story, TIME, Dec. 30. ... Background of the use of this "Plan" in Michigan's campaign is about this: A subscriber to this newspaper, living in Battle Creek, at a dinner-table talk there recalled having read the "Plan," and sketchily detailed it to his friends as he recalled it. He had forgotten the title, but not the general idea. The result was that it was gossiped around and finally bobbed...
...night last November a detail of Tampa, Fla. police raided a committee meeting of radicals who were busy promoting "the unemployed struggle." Six agitators were carted off to headquarters, questioned, released. Thereupon a masked mob promptly picked up three of them, whisked them away to a swamp outside town, beat, tarred, feathered them. Hospitalized, one of the agitators named Shoemaker subsequently died. It was widely reported in Tampa that police had been members of the masked...
...Juilliard Musical Foundation, months of sound study in Germany, engagements at the Berlin Staatsoper and at the Paris Opéra-Comique. New Yorkers saw her last week as a slender, graceful young woman of 32 who had so thoroughly absorbed the role that there was scarcely a detail left unfinished. She could be fluttery and childlike without seeming foolish. She could be wistful and shy and still suggest a certain brave dig nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly patterned to describe Butterfly's faith in Lieutenant Pinkerton's return, her defiant refusal to believe that...