Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hereafter, when the Department of Justice looks prosecution-wise at any industry, its representatives can go to Washington, get the advice of such experts as Dr. Willard Long Thorp, top-flight Commerce Department economist, on the "economic aspects" of any consent decree to be proposed. The Department of Commerce explained that it wants to advise Business on steps which could not properly be discussed by the prosecuting Department of Justice. Since the right hand will know perfectly well what the left hand is doing, this will make it possible for the Government to prosecute and trade with Business...
This was a lesson in economics. Last week the Eastern roads tacitly admitted that they had learned something from it. Mr. Williamson's committee plumped for lower rates and bigger volume-with a hedge. The Western roads which have profited by low fares have comparatively long passenger hauls. (Average passenger ride on Union Pacific: 560.89 miles. Average on New York Central: 57.85 miles.) So the Eastern roads plan to scale their fares down to encourage longer rides...
Married. Russell Billiu Long, 20, son of the late demagogue, Huey Pierce Long; and Katherine Mae Hattic, 19, junior at Louisiana State University; in Baton Rouge...
Young Mr. Lincoln (Twentieth Century-Fox). The world should little note, nor long remember the story of Young Mr. Lincoln, for if it does, history may have to take a back seat. It is as if Darryl F. Zanuck had signed Mr. Lincoln to play in a swift, humorous, bathetic little piece of last century fiction. The result is an ingenuous jumble of history and fancy, its main theme being the story of how young Lawyer Lincoln, at 30, won his famous murder case with the help of the moon and a farmer's almanac, a trial that actually...
...limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when grandfather was a little boy, Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...