Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Congressman in a State which up until six months ago was run by Republicans is a plebiscite on the New Deal. Maybe the GOP's don't know that the area in question represents less than 1% of the area and population of the U.S. They also forget to mention that the people in Rhode Island have never tried to make a living by growing cotton and then selling it for 6¢ per Ib. As for the New Deal spending money, it would probably be interesting for them to know that there are more unemployed people in New York...
...Heads of units must be kind and patient in their dealings with subordinates, but, if these latter commit offenses and are not repentant, punishment should be firm. Subordinates must be respectful toward their superiors, and even when expressing firm convictions must not forget the important rules of discipline. The Army, in brief, must be united from head to foot in a consciousness of its high mission to serve the nation and the Emperor...
Please discontinue the roster of women hauled in rickshas by college coolies [TIME, Aug. 5 ]. This short haul idea will spread and does not need endorsement. The rider gets a superior feeling. The puller gets needed cash. Industry has a new article to manufacture and in time we forget we've sunk to an Oriental level. Promoters will circus ricksha marathons and soon the fine points of the white human horse will be contrasted with those of the black one. Personally I'd back my old Chinese puller against the finest any college could turn...
...bullet in his brain. His friends might have assumed that Jean Harlow had caused Bern's suicide had not his common-law wife brought herself to their attention two days later by jumping off a boat in the Sacramento River. This made it possible for Jean Harlow to forget her sorrow in the pursuit of her career. She did so well that a year later she married once more, this time to a jolly cameraman named Harold Rosson. The spirit of camaraderie which had sprung up between Photographer Rosson and Actress Harlow on the set was instrumental in making...
...like it when I am compared to Nijinsky. ... I do not think there is a dancer, no matter how good, who can do the things Nijinsky has been credited with lately. . . . Each year his ability grows in the minds of people who saw him 20 years ago and cannot forget. All the time they add a little to what...