Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional committees a report of the New York State Power Authority charging private power interests with "gross exaggeration" in computing the costs of public hydroelectric power and "gross understatement" of private steam generating costs-a none too subtle reminder to Mr. Carlisle that any Roosevelt importunity was purely a matter of expediency. But Mr. Carlisle was wreathed in amiability. Emerging from the White House he declared blandly: "I had a very happy discussion of the general situation of the utilities. ... I think that the fears of Government competition are very much lessened as a result of the discussions that have...
...group of Frenchmen were about to spring full-armed from the sewers of Paris, seize the Chamber of Deputies and make use of the facsimile signatures of Cabinet ministers, such a monstrous plot was no laughing matter. The key to Last week's riddle in French popular psychology was, of course, that strong nerves and shrewdness are leading French characteristics. Jean Frenchman figured that if the Reds, Pinks and Pale-Pinks-i.e., the Communist, Socialist and Radical Socialist supporters of the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps-were content to let Justice and the police take their...
Italian radio stations immediately broadcast Fascism's pride to the whole world. For 35 minutes stout young Bruno enjoyed being a world hero. Then suddenly a radio station of Italy's new "bosom friend" Germany made an announcement. With great satisfaction in a matter "particularly interesting," Berlin announced that Flight Captain Gerhard Nitschke, 32-year-old chief pilot of the Heinkel Airplane Works, had just flown a two-motored Heinkel-Benz airplane 621 miles, with a payload of 2,204 lb-(1,000 kg.) at a speed of 313 m.p.h.-46 m.p.h. faster than young Mussolini...
...idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty and drama. For a World's Fair is. no matter what the brochures and prospecti say about it, a big show; it creates an illusion, and it has to be emotional, dramatic, and possibly dyed with the deep but uncertain dyes of mysticism. The walls of most World's Fairs bear the imprint of the cloven hoof...
...Stein began reading the manuscript to Artist Pablo Picasso and his wife: "I was reading he was listening and his eyes were wide open and then suddenly his wife Olga Picasso got up and said she would not listen she would go away she said. What's the matter, we said, I do not know that woman she said and left. Pablo said go on reading. I said no you must go after your wife, he said oh I said oh. and he left and until this year ... we did not see each other again...