Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many young graduates have the old Yankee idea that they belong where the opportunity for material gain is greatest and easiest. Told to go forward, but not where, graduates of the past fifty years seemed to have evolved the tradition of money-grubbing by seeking positions which would pay the highest salaries merely because they did pay them. During the industrialization of the last century most millionaires made their wealth without social regard and only thought of society post facto--sometimes to ease their conscience. The desire for security--which involves comfort, leisure, marriage--is intelligent, but the ambition...
...first evolved it (under the impression that they were re-creating the Greek tragedy), opera has been to Italians what cinema is to the U. S. public. Nearly every theme in literature has been through the operatic chutes. A total list of the operas written by Italians during the past four centuries would run well into the tens of thousands...
...Western Air Douglas DC2 transport left San Francisco with six passengers and a crew of three, headed for Los Angeles. At the rugged Tehachapi Mountains, it met the vanguard of the worst storm the West Coast has seen for 64 years (TIME, March 14). The storm chased it back past Bakersfield, then past Fresno, then swallowed it up. Last week, a young Fresno prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage of the plane, smashed to bits but unburned...
...sold U. S. securities in Germany during the Civil War, as it handled railroad reorganizations, as it floated the first loan to-Cuba. In 1885, James Speyer, after being bound apprentice to the family firms in Paris, London, Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset the applecart of international finance. In 1922 Speyer's London firm dissolved...
Inclined despite his democratic manners to be a playboy, a first recognition of social inequality came to Franklin Roosevelt from seeing the New York poor on excursion steamers as he sailed past on his yacht. The first really good lick destiny got in was his marriage to serious, social-minded Eleanor Roosevelt. Among the many excellent and sobering results of his marriage, avers Ludwig, was that it trained him for keeping peace in Congress. Louis Howe's misanthropic advice checked his "easygoing nature." With his heroic fight against infantile paralysis, the playboy streak was eradicated. So far as Biographer...