Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Government this year is about three billion dollars, the national income of the people of the United States has risen from thirty-five billions in the year 1932 to sixty-five billions in the year 1936, and I tell them further that the only burden we need to fear is the burden our children would have to bear if we failed to take these measures today. . . . "Other individuals are never satisfied. One of these, for example, belongs to a newly organized brain trust-not mine. He says that the only way to get full recovery -I wonder...
Economically the taxation of undistributed corporation profits appears to be sound, from the point of view of mitigating the severity of booms, and consequent depressions. The Times editorial's fear that the tax would stunt the growth of American industry and restrict the opportunities for new employment seems silly in view of the fact that the receivers of dividends would still have the opportunity to reinvest these profits through the ordinary channels of the investment market, the only difference being that this market, and not the views of the management of the corporations, should decide in what industries to invest...
...SUBJECT of the men who conduct and their orchestras is both intriguing and dangerous. The fascinations surrounding a Toscanini or a Koussevitzky are well known; but there is always the fear that attention may be diverted from the music itself to mere personalities. Mr. Ewen has quite evidently endeavored to avoid this pit-fall by mirroring the famous conductors in their musical interpretations rather than through biographical facts alone or individual comparisons. The latter are not neglected, to be sure, for enough of the personal history is given to shed light on the backgrounds of the men themselves...
Causes: Detestation of propeller noise, fear of falling, fear of crashing, fear of seeing mangled bodies, fear of losing jobs, deflation of ego, loss of self-respect, fear of social degradation, anxiety for welfare of family. Dr. Armstrong thinks flying injures the actual tissues of the brain. He is trying to demonstrate this hypothesis by rattling rats in baskets until they go crazy, then examining their brains under the microscope...
...bulk of the participants. But this should not change the character of the proceedings from a meeting of learned men to a stamping ground of political compaigners. The rigors of the presidential race will leave the field to scholarship once the official benediction has been bestowed. No one need fear that the Senate will break up the celebration by recognizing Harvard's historic significance on the American scene, though the metropolitan press may regard the Tercentenary theatre as the seat of a war between Congress and the Corporation...