Word: never
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the country to see Mother. Lots of our friends are drifting back to town through sheer boredom. I fancy I shall be mentally deficient when the war does end. This sort of pottering about is quite destructive to the brain and one can't settle to anything never knowing when one will be called...
Last January the bonfire girls found a match: the U. S. Government had never officially appointed her to her post. Franklin Roosevelt quietly appointed a chum of Mesdames Perkins, Dewson and his wife -Mary Winslow of Washington-to the "vacancy." But Miss Stevens thwarted the bonfire girls. She refused to leave office...
...good bet that, in pre-Babylonian days, bookies made money. But, without the services of such modern inventions as Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...
...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
...establish a liberal credo, a way of looking at U. S. political and social life, rather than to win a practical political objective. A scholar-his field was U. S. history-and a gentleman, Herbert Croly was also almost a great editor. His unruly staff, over whom he never exercised the full powers of an editor, had one common admiration-Croly. Through the New Republic's respectable but rundown portals passed some of the most incongruous people in the world: Greenwich Village poets, workers from Chicago's Hull House, old-style Caribbean revolutionaries, retired burglars, Messianic booksellers, musicians...