Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before the war with Spain...
...economic framework of the New Deal automatically bars payment in goods or services. Gold payments are hardly desirable and very improbable. The Nazi "weltpolitik" and the Blue Eagle U. S. Navy construction, give the lie to linking debts with disarmament. It is the task of President Roosevelt to tell the country the true state of the war-debts rather than to permit the next due-date to arrive bringing no satisfaction but plenty of recriminations. The war-debt problem has become one of sanitation, not salvage...
...Economic Conference at London soured the world's stomach for conferences in general. Delegates of 21 nations reassembled in London last week to talk about wheat, and the world Press regarded the beginning of their deliberations with marked skepticism-for the first three days with considerable justice. The framework for an international agreement to cut wheat production for two years by 15% in each of the great exporting countries-Canada, U. S., Australia, Argentina-had been drawn up early in the summer by U. S. Delegate Henry Morgenthau (TIME, July 3 et seq.). Now the wheat importing nations seemed...
...harbor suggests the Navy Yard, and if you have ideas about disarmament you may go there to watch the framework of the new destroyer being laid down. Saturday and Sunday afternoons are the only times when you are shown on board the Navy ships...
...clear thinking and courageous definition of basic values and problems, these two men had nothing to offer but fog. It was apparently not without purpose that President Lowell urged last Sunday, "one must endeavor to distinguish between the enduring and the temporary, between the things essential to the framework of every good human society, and the expedients useful for the moment, not letting these impair the permanent structure...