Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apple-cheeked Premier Thomas Dufferin Pattullo had journeyed to Washington to chat with President Roosevelt about his cherished dream of a road to Alaska. Returning to find his newly finished post office occupied by a noisy rabble, he failed to impress them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
Regional Planning. The creation of seven "little TVA's" throughout the land is the dream of Senator Norris of Nebraska, who sired big TVA. The President put this program on his Must list for the special session last fall, let it be forgotten when the ruckus within TVA broke out. Last bill on the subject submitted was "National Planning Act of 1938" by Representative Joseph Mansfield of Texas, which proposed to curb floods, improve navigation, conserve water, soil, forests, etc., did not mention Power...
Sirs: The comments on Sigmund Freud (TIME, May 23) could hardly have been made by an ordinary book reviewer, because a tricky and greatly misquoted theory was handled quite truthfully. I usually expect to hear some crackpot sound off with the squirrel cage statement that all Freud's dream translations and all Freud's theories...
...take a serious crash at Washington to jog Congress into action, President Roosevelt had a nightmare himself. To a group of Congressional bigwigs assembled for a White House conference, he told the story. It was that one night right after the fatal United Air-Lines crash at Cleveland, he dreamed that he got up from bed, walked to a White House window, and witnessed a terrible crash at the Washington Airport. Most of the conferees knew that only in a dream could anyone see the Washington-Hoover Airport from a White House window, but they knew, too, that Franklin Roosevelt...
...really important entries in Homer's journal, recurring about once a week, are his dreams of his old sweetheart Fran. These dreams start soon after he runs away from Buffalo, jealous because she talked to another boy. Homer believes his visions are mystic bulletins telling in exact detail what happens to her; he is, of course, 100% wrong. When, in one of them, Fran's clothesline breaks, Homer writes severely: "I should think Clark [her dream husband] could at least put up a wire clothesline...