Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar complaint against the New Deal is that it has virtually wrecked the Civil Service system by loading deserving Democrats into all sorts of good jobs. A prime statistic: in three years Roosevelt, Farley & Co. have made 150,000 straight political appointments, have reduced Federal employment under the merit system from 80% to 63%. A prime reason: in setting up emergency agencies the Administration short-circuited the Civil Service to get men quickly...
Beginning slowly and calmly in his luscious brogue, Father Coughlin assured the Townsendites that he had not come to persuade or dictate to them. He simply wanted to tell them a few things about the National Union. Bit by bit. rehearsing his familiar indictments of the Federal Reserve Banks and the "money changers." he stepped up-as Adolf Hitler does-his speed and volume. By the time he reached President Roosevelt's failure to keep his inaugural promise to drive the money changers from the temple, the Priest was sweating as freely as had Preacher Smith...
...existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration, and all Soviet papers suddenly burgeoned with photographs of the rotund face, familiar to all Europe, under the caption: "The Stalinist Bearer of Peace." From Montreux Comrade Litvinoff modestly replied: "I shall continue to fight against the forces of war and aggression and go ahead with my work for peace, which is the only justification for the activities of a Soviet diplomat...
Back for another run last week was that familiar U. S. drama concerning joy in the market place and despair on the farm. While drought withered crops and pastures in a score of states, the nation's commodity markets staged the most exciting show since the great drought of 1934. A large part of the entire U. S. spring wheat crop was but worthless stubble. Winter wheat on the other hand had already been mostly harvested. Early in June the price of wheat was less than 85? per bu. Last week it sold as high as $1.10. In corn...
...MAGNIFICENT HOAX-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little, Brown ($2). Last week E. Phillips Oppenheim published his 100th novel. This year rounds out a half-century of writing. Next October he will be 70. "E. Phillips Oppenheim" is more than a man's name: it has become a familiar phrase for bejewelled melodrama. In the 50 years Author Oppenheim has been doing business his trademarked product has become as well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would...