Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose and method in their apparent madness are clearly and succinctly examined. The frequent discontinuities of action and the indefinite blurring and even incoherent quality of these authors are attributed to the multiplicity of selves within the individual and the generally chaotic and tangled mass of impulses which govern conscious action. This attempt to delineate incipient thought and the very springs of consciousness have necessitated a new technique especially in those writers like Joyce who are tending toward what might be called the steam of subconsciousness in which even the words are hardly formulated into sentences...
...dream. Pessimistic passages in his writing give the same impression that one gets from hearing the precise, clipped accents of his speaking voice, an impression of the intellectual aristocrat who sometimes despairs of public ignorance ever being cured, thus throwing the public's right to participate fully in Government open to question. 'With actual life outrunning politics and theories. Editor Lippmann has arrived at a state of mind where he believes, in effect, that a class of wholly "disinterested"' men should govern with the consent of the People, if not with their advice. What would save such a brainpower oligarchy...
Under the "present system" no white man can settle in Greenland or even land there without special permission from the Danish Government. Trade is a Govern-ment monopoly, Eskimos are benevolently encouraged not to become too civilized...
Founder of Beneficial was the late Clarence Hodson who supported the Russell Sage Foundation in writing and getting 25 States to adopt the general form of the Uniform Small Loan Law to govern the operations of personal finance companies. Mr. Hodson opened a loan shop in Newark, N. J., just before that State passed the Small Loan Act in 1914. He immediately started expanding his operations. In 1929 the present Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. was formed by a big merger. It now has 318 offices in 200 cities and communities. Last year it loaned...
Even to Frenchmen who knew that commercial aviation means a long, long pull. Aeropostale's showing was disappointing. Its planes carried last year only 224,000 mile-tons of freight, one-fifth of capacity. In 1929 its total receipts were but $770,000. Undoubtedly the Govern-ment had hoped for better things...