Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic nationalism or aloofness-every nation striving to live unto itself-has proved utterly empty and disastrous. The practice of the half-insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten years by America and the world is the largest single underlying cause of the present world panic...
...rich and powerful'' during lunch hours. In 1929 he was naturalized, later registering as a Republican voter. In 1926 his appendix was removed. Suffering from stomach ulcers he roamed the country restlessly. This chronic complaint evidently warped his reason, excited him to last week's mad...
...some 44 countries definitely off the gold standard. . . . The United States has held stanchly to the gold standard. . . . We have thereby maintained one Gibraltar of stability in the world and contributed to check the movement to chaos. . . . We will be forced to defensive action to protect ourselves unless this mad race is stopped...
...accompaniment is gay and tuneful. Straight from the printed page through the voice of Josephine Hutchinson, in pinafore and long golden hair, comes the sense of Alice's constant wonderment. "Off with their heads, off with their heads!" shrills Joseph Schildkraut as the Queen of Hearts. And the Mad Hatter (Landon Herrick) runs about cup in hand with IN THIS STYLE IO/ 6 stuck in his towering headpiece. The Walrus and the Carpenter, two large marionettes, eat little marionette oysters as pot-bellied Tweedledum & Tweedledee recite their poem. The Mouse, the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Gryphon...
...remarkable have been the educational advances which have come from Andover in the past two decades that I can not repress the feeling that your editor failed to comment upon them only because he was unaware of them. In his mad dash for materialism Dr. Stearns turned over the first million dollars received to the raising of the salaries of the faculty. That was in 1920, Six years later he inaugurated a drive that was to bring in a million and a half. This he devoted to the establishment of ten teaching foundations (your "few teaching foundations"). The value...