Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laborites, Liberals and non-appeasing Conservatives that the Chamberlain Government had far from re formed. "Is the Government still yearning after appeasement?" angrily asked Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood. "Is it prepared to try to buy off Hitler by sacrificing Danzig and perhaps Poland itself? Is it toying with the idea that it can, by sweet reasonableness and financial aid, persuade Germany to beat her swords into plowshares...
Leak. Although Mr. Chamberlain did not know how the story of the conversations could have leaked out, the angry, outspoken Mr. Hudson had an idea that it was none other than Dr. Wohlthat who had broken his confidence. If that were so, Dr. Wohlthat could scarcely have done a better day's work for his Führer. For it is just such appeasement rumors that weaken Polish, French and general European confidence in Britain's promises to stop further German aggression...
...idea of life on Mars got a big push in 1877 when the Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli* first pictured the vague markings called "canals." Schiaparelli actually called them canali, which means "channels," but was translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than...
...effectiveness of his fight is shown by two facts: 1) that Congress is now highly critical of TVA and similar projects-and the whole yardstick idea has taken a political beating, 2) that Wendell Willkie (a lifelong Indiana Democrat) is today the only businessman in the U. S. who is ever mentioned as a Presidential possibility...
Last March, at annual sounding-off time, Groesbeck tossed out his idea. He said: ". . . The objectives of both Government and the utilities must be with the widest possible use of electric service at the lowest possible cost. . . . The achievement of this end and the solution of the existing problems of competition lie in ... the coordinated use of the existing generatmg and transmission facilities of both " Two months ago the New York Power Authority (planning exploitation of the St Lawrence Waterway, very close to former governor Franklin Roosevelt's heart) made its annual report. In presenting a copy of their...