Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There may be a great need for trained intellects through well organized curricula and efficient and far sighted administrations, but without healthy bodies as complements to the human picture--then, all education is futile. These United States succeeded only too well during the rouge era to spread the gospel of profit for the institution at the expense and neglect of 90 per cent of the individuals who make up the institution...
What Mr. Roosevelt told his many and assorted visitors-an "old dodo bird" of the Wilson era and two Pueblo Indians, an R. F. C. director and a Big Navy lobbyist, a Senator from Illinois and a Senator from France, a onetime Governor of Kansas and a onetime Ambassador to Germany- neither he nor they would reveal. In Washington, Louisiana's Senator Long, radical Roosevelt supporter bucking the conservative Democratic leadership of Arkansas' Senator Robinson (see p. 12), gave this version of interviews with the President-elect: "When I talk to him, he says 'Fine! Fine! Fine...
...lies in the significance which it attaches to the present depression. Heretofore, economists have been somewhat too prone to regard these times as only another of the periodically recurring economic and financial crises. This committee, on the contrary, sees this present depression as marking the conclusion of one entire era of American history and the beginning of new, and third chapter...
...natural resources has now reached a maximum, both in amount and efficiency. The ability of industry to supply has now surpassed the power of the public to consume; and hence the need for rapid technological progress becomes less and less. The chapter ends, and American History enters a new era...
...this prophecy Mr. Kettering shows where motordom's endless changes are leading, just as all of his inventions point the way towards a life filled with gadgets to reduce all effort. But the first era of his automobile's transition from a buggy with an engine inserted under the driver's seat seems completed, for the Royal Family enters 1933 not with the hope of placing more & more cars on the highways but with the pious ambition of halting the seepage of cars off the highway and into dead storage or junk heaps (see below...