Word: intents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Erie Canal. This sectional point was wisely not brought out in the minority committee report written by Senator Wagner. "The very core of the St. Lawrence plan," said he, "is the intent to face the railroads with competition, and thus to decrease activity in one industry as fast as it is created in another.'' The President anticipated all such arguments by stating in his special message: "It is, I believe, a historic fact that every great improvement to better commercial communications, whether in the case of railroads into new territory, or the deepening of great rivers...
WEDDING SONG-David Burnham-Vi-king ($2.50). If Ernest Hemingway should read this book he would be less flattered than embarrassed. Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where...
Most delegates dashed out of the final plenary session intent only on signing everything that needed signing and still catching the night boat for gay and glamorous Buenos Aires. On long tables Conference secretaries had placed what seemed to be treaties and agreements, each open at the last page for signatures. Jostling and squabbling the statesmen scrambled to squiggle. Delegates of several countries who had told the Conference they would not sign the Treaty on Women's Equal Civil & Political Rights rushed up to it with pens poised and were only stopped from signing by pickets hostile...
These are well chosen to tickle reminiscence. And in this respect, Mr. Allen's comments too, are above reproach. If they are informal, if often they take on the questionnaire aspect of the minor parlor sports, one can only conclude that they represent the spirit and the intent of the book. Perhaps when the garish and unsubstantial covers have worn a little, and when references to 1933 appear not quite so obvious and so dignified as at present, the editors may feel some compunction that much effort and fine printing have been spent on a work largely devoted to temporary...
...called "Six-Year Plan" which is little more than an intensification of his perennial efforts to prevent foreign capitalists from playing a dominant role in Mexico and to bring the country's enterprise under Socialistic State control. Dismayed by this evidence of General Calles' fresh intent to press his program strongly, the Bank of Montreal (which once exercised almost a monopoly in large scale Mexican credit and exchange operations) was reported by Mexico City's authoritative El Universal last week about to follow the example of the Anglo South American Bank which recently closed its branches...