Word: majored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant another cotton crop. For if there was anything the U. S. apparently did not need, that thing was more cotton. Hanging over the market was an enormous carryover of 13,000,000 bales, twice as much as the U. S. would use in a busy year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned to the Government for "loans" in hock to the U. S. taxpayer, who is paying $123,000 a day to keep it in out of the rain. If it were...
...When Major General George Van Horn Moseley* retired last year, with a roar at the New Deal (TIME, Oct. 10), he sounded like a U. S. Army officer who at last could say what he thought. Roaring around the country since then, he has made sounds something like a U. S. Fascist. Last week, roaring for the Women's National Defense Committee in Philadelphia, George Moseley finally made sounds that could not be mistaken...
Biggest fear of the Major's since the start, especially in hard times, has been that professionals might begin palming themselves off as simon-pures. But 30 years in and around the theatre have taught the Major to spot a pro as surely as a cop can spot a dip. Usually the Major's manner is kindly, helpful, encouraging, even fatherly. But when professionals appear all the love goes out of his voice. He becomes short, sharp, tries to give them the air and be done with them as soon as possible...
...time the Original Amateur Hour has turned up surprisingly few people who have got anywhere in big-time entertainment. Of the 5,000 who have signed the Major's "amateur's oath"-mouth organists, bell ringers, jug players, musical sawyers, garden-hose players, yodelers, tap dancers-most went back home to tend store, plow fields, marry, sell iceboxes with the memory of one shining moment in show business...
Publisher Funk devoted a section of Your Life to each of what he considered life's major problems-Health, Love, Fortune, Charm, Children, Conversation-added a section on Words because he is a lexicographer at heart, tossed in a digest of an inspirational book for good measure. Printing short articles in which big names talked to little readers on such subjects as "Be Glad Your Wife's Neurotic" and "Why Commit Suicide?" he soon ran his magazine's circulation to more than...