Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, 47.2% think it should work more closely with the President, and 40.6% prefer it to behave independently. FORTUNE'S conclusion: "Whether business can stand two, four or six years more of what Mr. Roosevelt stands for is beside the point, Business may have no choice in the matter. For the chances that any important number of Mr. Roosevelt's men will be defeated in the primaries this year are very slim...
That Abraham Lincoln is today a hero to U. S. Communists is a matter of plain geometry. In revolutionary jargon, Communist policy is known as the Party Line, and lately the Party Line has described a neat curve toward democracy. In recent Communist thought Lincoln, Jefferson, and Tom Paine have assumed a stature comparable to that of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. However much this may surprise the bourgeoisie, Communists planned it that way. This week they also planned their convention and its publicized dramatics to impress upon all U. S. minds a man, a policy, a party...
...Mussolini the blame for the impasse of the friendship talks. "However." continued the Premier, "France will persist in proving her close union, her calm self-possession. She can do it because she is strong. Her will for peace is her first guarantee, her strength is her supreme guarantee. No matter what the circumstances, France is fully capable of assuring the inviolability of her frontiers and her empire by herself." As if to add punch to the Premier's pronouncement came two moves in rapid succession. A five-billion franc defense loan, arranged by Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau, was oversubscribed...
...long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones about pointing out that the eventually accepted solution, i.e., that the disease was spread by the Stegomyia mosquito, was something that a Havana physician, Dr. Carlos Finlay, had been saying in vain for 19 years. And it stamps as matter-of-fact, unassuming heroes the young doctor (Henry Hull) who died and the five volunteers who risked their lives to test the Finlay theory...
...purely social aspects of Psychology is wanted. Sociology is the field. The advanced courses in Psychology, as was stated, under emphasize the personal and practical elements of the subject. There is not enough opportunity for original thought on the part of students, and exams tend to be a matter of tossing back what was tossed at them in the reading and the lectures...