Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt is the first U. S. President in modern times to speak really fluent French, and both his mother and his wife share his feelings for La Patrie. Last week, when London put to Washington the idea of permitting Paris to cheapen the franc, thus giving France a competitive advantage in world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French...
...that the radio industry already provides ample technical and artistic facilities for South American propaganda broadcasting. In spite of Representative Celler's contention that one Government station will scarcely interfere with the 728 private stations now licensed in the U. S., what particularly pains the broadcasters is the idea of domestic Government broadcasting. It sounds too much like the yardstick principle which is currently turning utility men's hair snowy white...
Retired Concert Pianist Mero-Irion founded the W. N. R. C., originated the idea of the Sealtest Rising Musical Star series, which her committee graciously commended under not one but two categories for its music and good taste in advertising. Her aim is to make newsboys whistle strains from Aïda. She storms at what she considers the state of radio broadcasting, loathes crime stories, poorly performed music, women baritones, precocious child artists, true story programs, advertisers who coax children to eat their products, amateur hours...
...difficult to cure because it usually springs from emotional maladjustment. A stammerer until he was 30, Lawyer Smith was impressed by the observation that stammerers have no trouble singing. One day when he heard Clergyman-Novelist Charles Kingsley, a stammerer, preach and sing without a hitch, he had an idea. Stammerer Smith cured himself, formed the Kingsley Club, enrolled Philadelphians and New Yorkers (mostly businessmen) and set out to cure them of stammering. He gave them deep breathing exercises and "inspiration." had them pronounce words slowly and rhythmically to the beat of a metronome. Then he stood them before...
...joys of Nazi Germany, German propagandists get out an elegant monthly review published in six languages. Last summer, Robert Lange, an energetic young liberal journalist in Paris, decided it was high time for France and the other democracies to begin a similar crying of their wares. He took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government backing was promised. Last week, at a graceful little ceremony in Paris, Minister of Education Jean Zay welcomed a handsome new publication, Monde Libre (Free World), attributed its inspiration to President Roosevelt's "quarantine the aggressor" speech in Chicago, dedicated...