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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conditioning engineers would be delighted to find a concise compromise, but they insist that you do not deceptively oversimplify an essentially complex condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...universe." In the substance of his speech he merely showed the intellectual and practical impoverishment of the Republican national leadership by bringing forward the usual vague charges of corruption of the party out of power, and advocated an amateur administration of relief. The Republicans will have to find something more than this rather poor philosophy of individual morals if they are to do anything practical again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOVER'S MORALS | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

...demands larger areas of local administration well suited to the character of the modern urban community. Moreover, we must look forward to the extension of the essential principles of the city manager plan to approved areas of regional administration. Despite the apprehension in some quarters lost our people find themselves confronted with a group of TVA's threatening to get out of hand, the void in our present system of public administration must be filled by the development of regional administrative mechanisms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. HOLCOMBE ASSAILS GOVERNMENT OF BOSTON | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

Many people will disagree with this book Often it seems to find in jazz more than actually is there in order to make such a life as Martin's possible. Nine-tenths of modern swing has not the creative urge behind it, yet it is the one-tenth which Miss Baker has singled out as the only genuinely important part, and she had done a great favor in telling the world that there is this one kind of jazz worth thinking about...

Author: By J. D. G. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf' | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

Love-or, rather two and one-half loves-found Mickey Rooney yesterday at the University, and will continue to find him through Saturday. In this most popular if not the most skillfully made of the Hardy Family series, Mickey Rooney undergoes parallel love affairs with Polly, the true love, and Cynthia, a cooperative redhead at the same time humoring Judy Garland, who is there only to sing. If his facial contortions add up to something less than good acting, Mr. Rooney is nevertheless very funny; and although the Hardy pictures are starting to lose their simplicity and naturalness the lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

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