Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard-headed Charlie Taft scoffs at the idea of a U. S. autocracy or Fascism. To him Al Smith, Mark Sullivan and Republican alarmists who proclaim the New Deal's march toward dictatorship are simply shadow-boxing with political phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement...
Your report in TIME, July 13, on the National Education Association meeting is a great improvement over your report on the St. Louis meeting, which reached low-water mark in selection of topics for reporting. As a member of the board of trustees, I think the reference to the "tight, autocratic board" is a fine compliment. We regard trust funds as trust funds and safeguard them accordingly...
...children were finally shunted to one side, the crowning absurdity was revealed. The pool was only three-feet deep instead of the Olympic standard of five. Long-armed swimmers, usually the ablest, who tried to do the crawl scraped their fingernails on the bottom. Said Olympic Coach Ray Daughters: "Mark my words . . . the tryouts are going to be miserable...
Just above the restricted class are so-called "borderline" accounts, in which margin is 55% to 60%. Their trading rights are not restricted, but excess margin is so small that another purchase of any size would push them below the 55% mark. Reported in this danger zone were 11% of all accounts, 12% of all margined securities...
...story darts from 1933 to 1902, from 1902 to 1928, from the years of the War to the time of the British General Strike, a queer cast of characters takes shape. Anthony's insincere, foolish fa ther, his boyhood friends, Mark Staithes and Brian Foxe, his first mistress, Mary Amberley who is Helen's malicious, unscrupulous mother, Beppo Bowles, an aging homosexual, all appear and play their parts in forming the combination of interests, prejudices, dislikes, inhibitions, standards, that make up Anthony's character. Sometimes they merely exert a negative influence, as when Anthony recoils in disgust...