Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past five or six years I have done as much studying of the map of this State as anybody in this State. I know the possibilities and I want to assure you that your Government in Washington is not forgetting your existence or your problems. We are trying in every way we possibly can to get more people into this State, to develop its resources for future generations who are going to live in the State...
Last week, Samuel Insull made newspaper copy for the last time. Old (78), broken in spirit, for the past year virtually an exile in Europe, living on his pension of $21,000-a-year granted by still-sound de-Insullated operating companies, he returned to Paris from a brief visit to the U. S. just in time to watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped...
...interest, Composer Strauss is fundamentally a man of old-world tastes. A connoisseur of painting, he prefers, and owns, pictures by El Greco, Rubens, Tintoretto. His favorite reading is history and biography, and he will spend many hours at a stretch poring over formidable, many-volumed records of the past...
...summer series, sold out Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium with all-Gershwin evenings. Last week, on the day after the first anniversary of Gershwin's death, the Philharmonic joined forces with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, played the fifth Gershwin Memorial concert to be heard during the past year.* If the performance, bolstered by names from radio and cinema, was a box-office draw such as the stadium periodically needs, it was also, to an eager and uncritical audience, a moving tribute to a well-loved U. S. musician...
...incomes big enough to permit purchasing more than basic essentials. That these 8% put a large amount of their money into savings instead of buying consumer goods is theoretically of no consequence since the savings are available for investment and consequent increased creation of capital goods. But for the past 20 years the volume of U. S. savings thus available for industrial expansion has exceeded the public's capacity to purchase goods. This situation can best be remedied, according to the Brookings theory, not by reducing production or by sharing the wealth, but by increasing the public ability...