Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...currently less important than pleasuring businessmen who are jittery at the thought that melon-cutting may be forever denied them. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins arrived in Washington full of ideas for cutting new melons for the unemployed. Before he left for Paris he struck a reassuring note by declaring: "The Administration is making an honest and a sincere effort to bolster up capitalism...
...used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed in 14th Century Florentine helmets and breastplates and carrying not Fascist banners, but the ancient white fleur-de-lis of the Republic of Florence...
...always learn from an Englishman the way things should be done. Harvard Clubs in America take note now with repeal and all. Don't be embarrassed when President Conant comes to call. Take a lesson from Johnny Bull...
...dean of the University of Idaho's School of Mines, was called to Washington to be made Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The day he arrived to receive his commission it was discovered that the President had not signed it. Scribbled on the margin was the note: "Held up because of political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried to become Director...
...songs and many another like them blare forth from 18,000,000 U. S. radio sets. Last week a handful of potent radiomen began examining them with two questions in mind: 1) Since most radio singers preserve the illusion of being unmarried, did these lyrics contain too strong a note of physical abandon? 2) If so, what was to prevent some outside organization from attempting to clamp a boycott on radio as the Legion of Decency has tried to do on cinema...