Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Thompson was never married to a U. S. President, but her writings receive almost as wide attention throughout the land as do those of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Miss Thompson's husband, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, in his most famed book, Main Street, reached fewer U. S. voters than Miss Thompson reaches daily in her syndicated column On The Record (audience: 7,000,000). Last week Dorothy Thompson picked up a phrase by Herbert Hoover-"Ideas cannot be cured with battleships"-and retorted: "Ideas can certainly be spread and suppressed by the sword...
Between Brooklyn, N. Y. and Honolulu, Hawaii, lie some 5.500 miles of land and sea. All that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky...
...noted authority on Irish oral tradition, Delargy is editor of the Folklore of Ireland Society Jornal and director of the Irish Folklore Commission. He has not only studies Irish traditions in his native land, but has also surveyed folklore in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, and Germany...
Granted this, the current fishing expedition appears unlikely to land anything. The Teachers' Federation will not oust a number of very powerful locals which could be classed under the catchall "Communistic," nor will the American Federation of Labor oust as important an organ as the Teachers' Federation...
...situation adds up, not to zero, but rather to a negative quantity. For the baiters are on the march, and the shout of "Communistic professors" again echoes over the land. There is little which can do more to harm the teaching profession than such recurrent campaigns. Not only do they destroy the faith which the general public must have in its teachers, but they also provoke the over-zealous watch-dogs of legislative chambers to blows at academic freedom. There is but one word for the whole episode: regrettable...