Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the U. S. Army has no idea where it will have to fight next, but its job is to be ready whatever the spot. Purely on the laws of political probability the army's present guesses rate future wars in the following order of likelihood: 1) civil uprisings on the U. S. mainland- some sort of trouble in the social order; 2) war in South America in case fascist economic penetration rubs the U. S. past endurance; 3) war in Europe or Asia for any reason; 4) least likely of all, invasion of the U. S. mainland...
...Tell me if I'm screwy for having the idea that, being the President's son, they'd have called me a crook no matter what business I'd entered...
Housed in the new Interior Building's seventh-floor penthouse, the studio is planned for the launching of new ideas in Government broadcasting. The idea man is Shannon Allen, acting radio section director of the Interior Department's Division of Information. A onetime NBC production man, he has the job of coordinating broadcasting activities of all Interior Department bureaus, furnishing radioactive bureau heads with the professional touch. For the dry statistical reports that are now the rule, Director Allen hopes to substitute dramatic treatment, has issued script samples to educate officials. Sample sample for a disquisition on reclamation...
...city desks cut up. The Post ran an eight-column head: NAGIRROC YAW GNORW OT LIAH. The Journal and American (Hearst) ran a banner head, WELCOME TO YOU O'CORRIGAN in Gaelic, later got a better idea, printed it in green. The Sun, which had previously used Corrigan's unorthodox navigation as a stick to beat the New Deal, announced: PARADE GOES RIGHT WAY. In various cities of the U. S., papers printed their front pages in green. The Los Angeles Herald and Express used the Post's idea, with the added note: "If You Haven...
...time (as it also does with contemporary Naziism) and it survives today in the writings of such eccentrics as Duke University's William McDougall. Most social psychologists have rejected the ethos as a scientifically useless personification, like the patriotic personification of "Uncle Sam" or a child's idea of Jack Frost and the Bogeyman. So far did the reaction swing against the group mind concept that some skeptics began to deny the existence of collective behavior, to declare that it was simply the sum of individual behavior. Dr. Richard Tracy La Piere, associate professor of sociology at Stanford...