Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an observer saw another reason for NRA's eclipse: Because of NRA's comparative failure to attain the two main results at which it was aimed the Administration has been glad to let it be forgotten, to shift public attention on other programs that may possibly achieve better results...
...Sandridge, a young Boston pianist, played a pretentious programme of Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Griffes. Mr. Sandridge's playing was full of feeling and a primitive and facile movement of rhythm. In the beautiful fourth Ballade of Chopin he exceeded himself in the passionate reiteration of the main theme in the middle section; also his final number, the Legends of St. Francis Walking on the Waves, brought forth the necessary brilliance and virtuosity that Pere Liszt always demands. The Sonata Appassionata and all the classics were lacking in mature understanding and finesse of technique...
...accountants who have set up books for state relief and CWA projects, supply him with complete reports of every cent spent in every state. He was quite candid in speaking of graft to Congressional inquirers: "On work relief we may have an occasional padded payroll. . . . I think in the main [Civil Works projects] are three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about it. . . . I am amazed at the number of people...
...They have built 2,200 kilometres of main roads in these two years, either parallel to our borders or running from the interior to the frontier...
Miss Goldman, who came to Boston to give one of a series of lectures on her book, "Living My Life," said that there are two main anarchist schools of thought: the individualistic philosophy of anarchism expounded in America by Benjamin R. Tucker, and Prince Peter Kropotkin's anarchist-communist philosophy of mutual aid. "I am a disciple of Kropotkin," she said. "I believe in voluntarily organized groups as a system of government, as was the original plan after the first Russian Revolution...