Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one white rabbit a year out of his fine high hat was produced by Franklin Roosevelt in the first five years of his Administration, to solve and save the U. S. economy. For his sixth year, with some 11,000,000 workers still jobless, the Budget still reeling, the President appeared to have lost his urge for new projects. Nonetheless, his advisers persuaded him to try at least a grey rabbit: revision of corporate taxes deterrent to Business. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins heralded it, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau nursed it after Undersecretary John Hanes bred and produced...
...automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect. As such he is most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt or some other, Jim Farley will accommodate himself. Meanwhile letting a boomlet for himself get under way will not loosen his hold on the party machinery...
...crossing from the start. Three days out George had to muffle up and Elizabeth stayed mostly indoors as a 60-mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many of the retinue discreetly to their cabins, but Their Majesties proved fine sailors. In the teeth of the gale, they watched the battle cruiser Repulse pick up a cask of mail dropped from the Empress and turn about for home, the crew singing as a parting salute, a gale-borne toast, Here's Health Unto His Majesty...
...hrer, on the other hand, ordered his aviators to try out a few of their latest tricks over Loyalist cities, but spared Germans the tedious life of the trenches. His fine-looking, neatly dressed, clean-shaven, well-behaved warriors were mostly staff officers, expert airplane technicians, artilIerymen and anti-aircraft gunners who stayed back of the lines and kept pretty much to themselves. There were probably never more than 10,000 of them in Spain at one time, but for two years they performed a service which neither Spaniards nor Italians were educated...
Grey-goateed President Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee) of the National Academy of Design likes to have its members remembered. Exhibited to that end last week at Manhattan's American Fine Arts Building was a fascinating array of work by vigorous Academicians from Inness to Homer to Bellows, plus notes, letters and early telegraphic contraptions by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the gifted portraitist and first president of the Academy (1826-45), who turned inventor to make a living...