Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loose-tongued Mr. Williams' chief was also on the defensive in the newspapers last week. To the New York Times Harry Hopkins wrote a letter denying that he ever said, as reported by Timesman Arthur Krock and others: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" (TIME, Nov. 21). Timesman Krock replied: "Among those who heard it is a most reputable citizen of New York and, in lighter hours, a playmate of Mr. Hopkins. They were at the Empire [City] race track in Yonkers at the time. . . . Had I not verified it and been assured that...
...offer, Mr. Willkie snapped: "Utility properties without a market are valueless except as junk. ... In effect, the Government holds a gun to the head of the utility and says 'Sell at our price or we duplicate.' . . . This is one of the most cruel, brutal, and unAmerican doctrines ever adopted...
...first argument runs... "What the Germans do to their minorities is their business and not ours." The answer to this is simply that what does happen in this world seriously affects all of us.... What the Germans do affects our lives regardless of our will, with ever increasing immediacy. My contention is that isolationism is an avoidance of the issue and a retreat from correlated facts...
...Germany shocked us because it attacks our faith in this nobler nature of man. It attacks not merely our Christian heritage but also our belief in the dignity of man here on this earth. The United States was founded by those who were persecuted abroad. It has grown, ever entrenching these beliefs in the individual worth of each character and the right of equal treatment and opportunity. It is an ideal.... But we have fought and died for it, and the greater the oppression the deeper goes the faith...
...this performance of the Mass is probably the finest that can ever be produced with human forces and consequent human imperfections. To play and sing the music must be a tremendous task; even to hear it is a harrowing experience. The vastness of the work removes it from ordinary life. Beethoven's method of worshipping God transcends all formal limits; to him the capability of his players and the capacity of his audience are both unimportant. Hence all the more honor is due the Glee Club, the Choral Society, and the Orchestra for reaching a new peak in their joint...