Word: myths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden Corp. which Rickard founded. It caused twelve deaths from excitement. Adolf Hitler congratulated the winner. What made the fight remarkable, however, was none of these facts. It was remarkable because in it Schmeling demolished not merely a capable & well-trained opponent but the hardiest of all those resilient myths which flourish so prodigiously on the sports pages of U. S. newspapers, the myth that Joe Louis was unbeatable...
...such a downy dove as Dexter Fellows. In the 43 years Harbinger Fellows has been pressagenting for the circus, he has never failed to get favorable free publicity for "the Greatest Show on Earth"; his only problem has been how much he would get this time. The myth of his own personality has grown and flowered to such lush proportions that some have doubted his actual existence. But that he still is and has been very much alive was proved last week by his autobiography (ghosted by his good friend, a onetime newshawk, Andrew A. Freeman...
...budgets in advance, hold public hearings; 3) the Cash Basis Law which limits every locality to pay-as-you-go spending. The last is a Landon measure. The first two were initiated by Democratic Governor Woodring. Governor Landon has stuck to the law's letter. But the enormous myth which GOPartisans have made of his budget-balancing feat may be finally debunked by reflection on the probable state of Kansas' finances if the Federal budget had been balanced since 1933, thus depriving dust, drought and Depression-stricken Kansas of the $400,000,000 of Federal money which...
...book is divided into three parts: a brief, yet clear, history of the development of the "corporate" myth, an excellent discussion of Fascist economic accomplishments, and a conclusion which estimates the relative power of the forces in the Italian government today. Professor Salvemini has spared no footnotes, and his conclusions are supported not by one casual quotation, but by pages of them. Despite these necessary appendages to a thorough work of scholarship, he has written no dull government text. "Under the Axe of Fascism" has just enough unrelenting prejudice, just enough biting sarcasm to give the books a lively, absorbing...
Professor Salvemini leaves his reader with very definite conclusions. As a philosophy, the "corporate state" does not exist in Italy today. It is a myth, a sham, a sop to the gullible people. Mussolini does not believe in the crude methods of the Nazi purge. He sends his party opponents to the front in the Ethiopian war. It is not capital, large and small, that influences the Italian Government, but only "big business...