Word: majorities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under "National Defense," TIME, April 10 issue, appears an article on the recent Navy Design Competition for boats of the so-called "Mosquito Fleet." I am greatly surprised see TIME exploiting one major award winner, casually mentioning another, and leaving out the other three entirely...
...winner of a major award in the 110-foot Class and minor awards in the 70-and 54-foot Classes, we feel rather proud of being the only firm in the competition to have received more than one award. I have always thought Time unbiased, yet I find our name not even mentioned. Why not give credit where credit...
...until Roosevelt I entered the White House did Author Mahan come into the honors due a major prophet at home. In the Mahan works, Theodore Roosevelt found the perfect articulation of his Big Stick. Five years before the Spanish-American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called...
...twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received last week by many a Republican politico was a "teaser" postcard setting forth magnificent qualifications for the "logical...
...Requiem the singers face a problem quite different from any they have met in a work of major proportions in recent years. It is probably harder to perform well than either the Beethoven Missa Solemnis or the Bach St. Matthew's Passion. Though the latter are physically more difficult, they are comparatively clear-cut in their problems of nuance and phrasing. They are not particularly intimate in their sentiments; that is, there is a certain broadness about them which lends itself to interpretation by groups almost as well as by individuals. In the Requiem, however, the expression is much more...