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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been staged under New Deal management. Heretofore Franklin Roosevelt's morsels of encouragement to Private Profit had been tossed out as asides in speeches which concentrated on the New Deal's grander social objectives. Even the famed "breathing spell" of 1935 came only in answer to a letter from a publisher.* Now, Depression and an election having intervened, the fairest-haired lieutenant of the whole New Deal was being sent out to effect Recovery through the strange and unfamiliar medium of Business itself. To succeed he must embrace Business within the New Deal's social philosophy...
...Soon most of the other well-known leaders who had worked with Mahatma Gandhi followed suit. For Pandit Nehru, however, there was a difficult choice: he was doctrinally sympathetic toward Mr. Bose but his personal devotion to the Mahatma was intense. He finally chose devotion and, in a bitter letter to Mr. Bose, resigned...
...Robinson Crusoe, was largely filled with dull political and economic arguments, but it did introduce the first gossip column, the first society news and first advice to the lovelorn in English-language journalism. Like Dorothy Dix, Editor Defoe spun many a moral sermon in order to get a confessional letter into print. Sample from his "Advice from the Scandal Club" column: "Gentlemen ... I desire your advice in the following Case. I am something in Years, yet have a great Affection for my Neighbour's Wife, and she no less for me; her Husband is sensible of it, but seems...
Planners. A real estate man named Joe Dixon (who got a season pass to the fair for his pains) started the whole show exactly six years ago with a letter to the San Francisco News. Oilmen, steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named...
...attempt to take an informal poll on the question of easy death, the Sunday Forum of the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal last month published a melancholy letter signed "Lonely Man." The letter was headed: Would You Kill Yourself If You Had An Incurable Illness...