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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substitute and Mr. Hoover thought the time was opportune to steal a march on the New Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes and restore coverages. ... I believe we must be prepared to subsidize directly such special crops until agriculture...
...vital question should be asked in making a judgment of any candidate: will this man, after four years of a Harvard education, go back to his home state, become a leader in thought, politics, education, business, or journalism, and thus spread the influence and expand the service of the University throughout the country...
...ordered to exchange jobs with Florence Chief of Police Amadeo Palma. What most Italians seemed to be thinking was well phrased by General Garibaldi: "If there is a war, England will give us a whipping, but the English will know they've been in a fight! Italy must expand. We can't go on begging always. Today we have first, faith in Mussolini, and second we have steel-hot or cold...
...hope that in future years this experiment of a Peace Meeting, eminently successful as it was, may expand its outlook to include practical solutions. Propaganda, education, speeches, mobilizations, Peace Meetings are all in the right direction. But Peace can only be waged through the strength of the state, through the governments that each country is cursed with in the next years. Not until government policies are found and accepted which will really keep us out of foreign wars, and also prevent such wars from beginning at all, will Peace be possible...
CONRAD AIKEN'S new book is a terrifying psychological study of Jasper Ammen, an egocentric, ruthless character, who plans to commit murder simply to expand his great self-satisfaction. Ammen has heard somewhere the name "King Coffin." His desire is to fuse himself with that symbol, to become the awful, mystic figure of King Coffin himself...