Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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You know a fellow can get into an awful lot of messes when he starts helping the other fellow with his troubles instead of minding his own business. If he has nothing else to do, he ought to go fishing. . . . So, instead of building faster airplanes, bigger battleships and a...
Junking. After Elder Stimson, Chairman Pittman next called Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who served 21 years ago as chairman of the War Industries Board. His terse war sales formula has long been: "Come and get it." To Mr. Stimson's suggestion of discriminatory, perhaps embroiling embargoes, he answered: "If...
Governor Stark quarreled with Boss Pendergast in 1937 over the reappointment of R. Emmet O'Malley, State superintendent of insurance. All Missouri had wondered about a great insurance rate fight, which Mr. O'Malley settled in 1935. Insurance companies had jacked up their rates on fire and windstorms...
In short, Mrs. Roosevelt, oracle to millions of housewives, would bring them face to face with Right and Wrong as a world issue. "Not to do so," she says, "would be, for me, not to live, but to have a sort of oyster-like existence." If nothing else will preserve...
Benito Mussolini's growing Roman Empire last week grew a very little more. On Good Friday it absorbed the very little Balkan Kingdom of Albania. Only that and nothing more. Il Duce's coup was neither more nor less cynical and coldblooded than those of Adolf Hitler. But...