Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations were investigated by a suspicious Congress. But today critics who looked the Rockefeller gift horse in the mouth in 1913 are sorry to lose the old animal, for G. E. B. has written its Q. E. D. under many a progressive idea...
...topic, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce submitted a history of the U. S. census of distribution of commodities by wholesale and retail merchants. Need for such a statistical breakdown was first felt in 1922. By 1925 a committee headed by Owen D. Young was at work on the idea. First nationwide census was made by the Bureau of the Census for the year 1929, was repeated and improved for 1933 and 1935, producing such figures as the number of retail establishments (1,653,961), banks and other financial institutions (44,101), advertising agencies...
...much to ask even of a politician (which is probably not Mr. Hoover's idea of himself) that he define his terms better than is shown in "It is alone the spirit of morals that can reconcile order and freedom," and "There is a moral purpose in the universe." In the substance of his speech he merely showed the intellectual and practical impoverishment of the Republican national leadership by bringing forward the usual vague charges of corruption of the party out of power, and advocated an amateur administration of relief. The Republicans will have to find something more than this...
...hell for a touchdown against most any opposition. And he's a pretty keen fellow when it comes to calling plays, too, for that matter. Mix them up--run, pass, kick, fight for that extra yard--keep the old legs pumping all the time. He has a very distinct idea of how it feels to get out into the clear and watch the safety man dive at him desperately--and miss. It feels grand. And he can take it when the going gets tough, too--uphill all the way. Frankly, at times Vag thinks Mr. Harlow ought to know more...
...Hitler, who appropriates the democratic idea of self-determination to strengthen a totalitarian regime, really wanted peace he would not insist that so complex a problem as the transfer of Sudetenland be settled in so short a time. He would readily permit calm negotiations to bridge the gap between his "final" memorandum and Benes' "promise...