Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican and Democratic Nominees for President travel in special trains, the Prohibitionist in a lower berth, the Socialist in an upper berth, the Communist in a day coach and the Socialist Laborite in a second-hand Chevrolet. The Union Party candidate travels in airplanes. Since he, with Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin's support, "nominated" himself last June, freckle-faced William Lemke has been to 33 States, has flown some 30,000 miles...
...whole, despite an excellent cast, "Ladies in Love" falls into the class of lower mediocrity with a definite and final thud. Simone Simon has lost all the appeal she had in "Girls Dormitory," and although we any pleased to see Janet Gaynor back again her return is wasted on a poor show...
...earnest than peace. He proposes no sure-fire panaceas for complicated problems; that is not his forte. But he sees little use in being a kite tied to the League whirligig; he cannot envision "a war to stop war". Concretely, he proposes the greatest possible use of arbitration, lower tariffs, and taking of profits out of war. Further, he believes in neutrality and a pacific policy at all times, not hardened by all-embracive legislation into a glove which will not fit when war actually breaks out. Governor Landon says what he means and means what he says, being...
...absence of any statement of Mr. Rockefeller's intentions, Harlem optimists were predicting last week that he planned to buy the property at foreclosure sale, reorganize it, install better management, set lower rentals. Although Mr. Rockefeller once turned down an offer to sell out to the New York Housing Authority, it was reported last week that he might yet turn the venture over to the public as part of the new $4,700,000 Harlem River housing development, now being built at the end of 7th Avenue on ground which Mr. Rockefeller originally planned to include...
...regularly going on the wagon and as regularly falling off, the women snarling at the children, cursing the men, slandering each other. Consequently, while A World I Never Made does not deepen or add perspective to James Farrell's picture of the life of Chicago's lower-class Irish population, it widens the scope of that picture, is a forceful, frank but repetitious documentation of an aspect of it omitted from Farrell's previous books...