Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Resources Committee, composed of a number of Cabinet members, New Deal economists and liberal businessmen, considers its job "the most complete picture ever presented of the division of the national income. . . ." For its survey the National Resources Committee used figures compiled from a nationwide sampling by WPA through the bureaus of Home Economics and Labor Statistics. Between July 1935 and July 1936, some 300,000 families in 30 States (66 farm counties, 140 villages and 51 cities) were questioned. Correlated by a small, hard-working spinster named Dr. Hildegarde Kneeland, who was once a home economics teacher...
...most high-handed thing ever handed down." Such was the comment of Garnett C. Skinner last July when a Chicago judge awarded Prima Co., one of five Chicago breweries that survived Prohibition, $568,895 damages because its business had allegedly been run into the ground (TIME, July 26). The damages were against two of Chicago's big banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings. They had lent Prima Co. a considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge...
Last week in the September QST was published a letter from Archduke Anton, denying that he had ever been arrested, referring to the Anschluss only as "the great event." Wrote Archduke Anton: "The incorporation of the Austrian amateurs into the D. A. S. D. was accomplished in the friendliest manner and with great consideration towards us. I myself, as ex-president of the Oe. V. S. V., have been intrusted with the reorganization of the ex-Oe hams and have been named 'Landes Verbandsführer der Donaulande' that is to say: 'Leader of the association...
...much irritated by Buckminster Fuller's exclamatory style as impressed by his occasional lightning insights. And by the time they have finished reading of all the stupidities, confusions and downright imbecilities that humanity tolerates, the moon is likely to seem just as far away as ever...
...alcohol. ("What is said about alcohol." begins a prologue, "comes mostly from people who stand in a Platonic relationship to narcotics.") As they pour out their bawdy yarns, their pasts of incest, arson, rape, miscellaneous sadism, the reader grudgingly admits a growing sympathy for the preacher. No scape goat ever had such a gang so unremittingly against...