Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe he tops [Edgar] Wallace [TiME, March 13] for prolificity and ability. Then we have Napoleon's record as a writer. In 1807 when in Poland, Napoleon wrote more than 1,700 letters and dispatches on affairs of war and state in less than three months. When he did this without our present facilities of communication, what would he have done with them...
...Warm Springs Roosevelt had less relaxation than usual. He made no public comment on the speeches of Adolf Hitler at Wilhelmshaven, of Neville Chamberlain in Parliament (see p. 19), but he talked long on the telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas...
...Foreign manufacturers would then pay less for raw cotton than U. S. manufacturers. So let import quotas be imposed on textiles to protect the home market, and offer further subsidies to domestic manufacturers to help them compete in foreign markets...
...duty on German exports proved to have been subsidized. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is on record as opposing cotton export subsidies (although Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has since July 1938 dumped 67,000,000 bushels of wheat abroad). But last week Cordell Hull and Henry Wallace no less than Franklin Roosevelt felt that King Cotton, overloaded by a bumper 1937 crop of 19,000,000 bales, had got out of hand...
...Riverside Press. More concrete is his influence on such disciples as Milton Click, chief designer for Viking Press, whose books are among the most attractive now published. "B. R." is not particularly interested in de luxe editions as such. Of his 400-odd books, he himself owns less than 75, few of the expensive ones...