Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondent asked Mr. Roosevelt whether the Administration's known intent to ask Congress for still more money for a bigger Big Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...
Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, and widely known author, will speak on "This War and Reflections on Past Wars...
...Note: Mr. Roberts is the well-known author of the recent best-seller, "Northwest Passage...
...Manhattan was held a meeting of a society known as the Alden Kindred of New York and Vicinity. Qualifications for membership: to be one of the 5,000,000 descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins-vicinity, it was explained, meaning anywhere in the U. S. Twelve members, none named Alden, showed up, discussed plans for the winter...
...reflective witnesses, however, even the best "liberal" thinking has seemed about as far behind the times as Montesquieu's and Jefferson's was ahead of theirs. Parkes's book catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays, Parkes has tested the dogma of the Left in the light of history and reason, drawn his conclusions, brought them into sharp focus with political facts, and thereby outlined a progressive program with at least theoretical drive and good sense...