Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factories; 5) manufacture of fertilizer; 6) production and distribution of cheap hydroelectric power. For these purposes the Tennessee Valley Authority is permitted to sell its own 3½%, bonds, but not underwritten by the U. S. Treasury. President Roosevelt estimated that the whole integrated project, an old social dream of his and of Nebraska's Senator Norris would supply 200,000 new jobs and stimulate the "back-to-the-land" movement. If it succeeds, he is ready to experiment similarly with the valleys of the Missouri and the Columbia...
...does he launch out into the realm of personal speculation. "I may," he says, "be quite wrong, but from living with the writings of Henry Adams I carry the impression that the key to much of his life and attitude lies in the sentences I have just quoted. The dream of power was always, until it was too late, recurring to him, but he was always a little 'dazed, doubtful, shy." In other words, it appears to me, from Adams' own words "the sense (of power) came like vertigo leaving the brain dazed, doubtful, shy," that...
...concerns himself in the current Tennessee Valley project with matters quite as vast, but far less debatable. That the national investment in Muscle Shoals has remained too long in an inchoative stage is a criticism which few would care to dispute. And that flood control is not a quixotic dream the most superficial reveiw of British engineering on the Nile makes very clear. In detail, the Presidential message is sound and desirable enough; but in the abstract, a few uncomfortable difficulties arise...
...senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...
...American Dream gets in its most heavy-handed propagandist licks when the contemporary Daniel, a parlor pink with just enough genuine instincts left in him to know that his life is abominably warped, returns to the seat of his ancestors. Daniel (blond Douglass Montgomery who was also Daniel in Act I) futilely protests against his own social sphere by wearing turtleneck sweaters and dirty tennis shoes. He has also written a book on the New Economics...