Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Profound distrust of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy inspired Mr. Garner, who thinks that the less Democrats say about it, the better for him or any other Democratic candidate for President in 1940. Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark...
...choice is Sally Rand's troupe of cowgirls, wearing boots but no saddles on a "Dnude* Ranch" behind plate glass (see cut p. 16). Instead of "Midway," the fair's fun section is called "Gayway," which, although it means red-light district down South, sounds less bawdy to Western ears than "Barbary Coast," first and logical choice...
...Rome there was a prodigious whispering and bustling of emissaries around Cardinals' palaces. And in the Rome-Berlin axis there was some clumsy public hinting to the forthcoming conclave. In Germany Das Schwarze Korps warned the four German Cardinals against voting for an anti-Nazi Pope. Even less tactful was German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl-Ludwig Diego von Bergen, who, while conveying to the College of Cardinals the condolences of the diplomatic corps, told them: "We are assisting at the elaboration of a new world, which wants to raise itself upon the ruins of a past that...
...piece: between the crude short-changer Oscar and his greatly aspiring sister is the difference between a rat and an eagle. Not instinctive, but icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...
...dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom. From prohibition of fascists in specific laboratories to a prohibition extending to graduate courses is no long step; from there the virus may spread to whole universities, and then go on to infect the entire educational system. Thus do such efforts...