Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long hot weeks of summer Franklin Roosevelt looked down his nose, disparaging the idea that he should campaign for reelection. When late in droughty August he began making "nonpolitical" campaign speeches newshawks plagued him with demands for the date of his first political speech. "About Jan. 4," he jibed. But last week when New England's birches were yellow, her maples orange, her oaks red, Franklin Roosevelt had lost his coyness about campaigning. He was out on the stump with other politicians, waving his hat at the electorate. His weekdays and nights were full of political speeches, bis Sundays...
...fight on their stomachs, so politicians fight on their campaign chests. Last week in Washington the Clerk of the House made public the official reports of campaign receipts & expenditures, up to within a fortnight of the election. With these and other facts published last week voters could get some idea of how much it costs to live four years rent free in the White House...
...Giants on Asgard, the home of the Gods, where such a great struggle took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack of Nazidom on the Church. The origin of this fantastic idea is the minute cross-shaped mark, more like a trade mark than a Church symbol, cut in the halberd of one of the Gods. At the right, as yet unfinished, there will be shown a sleeper awakening, standing for the regenerated race of man after the holocaust at Asgard...
History has proven to us time and again that Communism has no place in America. The Red idea appeals to a certain antagonistic and aggressive spirit interred in the bones of every "down-and-outer". Communistic advocates stubbornly insist that it is a desire for a Red government. That is the most serious of their many mistakes. The man is dissatisfied with his economic position in our type of industrial society. He wants to gain a place in the upper brackets. In other words, this type of fellow, the sediment of Bacchus, seeks to satisfy his own interests. This...
Lastly, a new program should be developed in conjunction with the second semester's work. While small conference groups should be retained as the fundamental organization, it would be an excellent idea to have weekly lectures given by specialists in certain fields, such as the drama, the novel, the poem, or the essay. Certainly the English Department has such specialists. These men, of necessity, would emphasize the form of each type of literature, but precisely what the student needs is an insight into the mechanics of writing and the organization of ideas...