Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men had hardly been placed with the University on the first rung of the faculty ladder when the depression hit. At that time, every university administrator was reluctant to do anything which would indicate that because of hard times young men should be displaced. The problem of meeting the future was, therefore, postponed...
...compassionate and intelligent." But, adds Mr. Krock-like many an observer before him-the Secretary has no sense of timing. When the slaughtered pigs are better forgotten, according to all New Deal strategists, he delivers a carefully phrased explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard-boiled New York publishers at their Book Fair, he delivers a long baccalaureate sermon on the history and joy of literature. Too highly political to serve as a model for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, there is nevertheless a touch of Mr. Smith about Mr. Wallace; in fact, says...
...more than 50% is contraband, condemns the ship. The neutral protests with as much vehemence as is compatible with the strength of its case. It may try to gain the ship's release, lay the basis for claims for damages after the war. If the belligerent captor, hard-pressed by enemy raiders, sinks the neutral vessel, procedure is for the crew and ship's papers to be taken off, the crew for the sake of humanity, the papers to establish the belligerent's case that the cargo is contraband...
After fighting long and hard against the strong groundswell of the publishing business, Scribner's Magazine last May crashed on a reef and foundered. But too old and honored was Scribner's to be abandoned utterly. First, Publisher Dave Smart of Esquire went salvaging on the spot where it had disappeared (TIME, Sept. 4), dredged up its 80,000 circulation at a reputed cost of $11,000. Then Publisher Charles Shipman Payson of The Commentator set out to salvage Scribner's itself...
...House, three members of the Cabinet and most of Washington's 509 correspondents. They had heard about this story of a rather sappy young idealist, who in defeating a frame-up to oust him from the Senate, exposes one U. S. Senator as corrupt, others as unimaginative, hard-boiled professional officeholders...