Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...academic significance of this diatribe is that an educational institution cerebrates on its belly, and good scholarship must wait upon a balanced menu. Were the authorities to focus upon the problem under their noses, the path would straightway be cleared for the furtherance of the humanities. And incidentally pruning the bully beef and mutton chop outlay would not only finance the purchase of greens but might net Lehman Hall a tidy little surplus as well. Rhodes P. Frothingham...
Near Waynesboro, Va., Howard Gibson, C. & O. Railway employee, spied a supply train clacking down the mountain at 40 m.p.h.. saw a freight train standing in its path. He threw a siding-switch, shunted the speeding supply train to safety. His reward : severe reprimand for unauthorized possession of the switch...
Only one pitfall still lay in General Russell's path: confirmation of his nomination by the Senate. Failure to gain that approval would be only indirectly the result of his failure to get to France. He did not get there because he was chafing in hot Haiti, trying to do an almost impossible job for the U. S. State Department. That job called for: 1) the liquidation of Haiti's external debt of $24,000,000, owed chiefly to France; 2) the preparation of Haiti's 90% illiterate population for self-government; 3) keeping the peace between...
...been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt will see fit to apologize to the Press of the nation for this gross insult...
...Pinchot's pained surprise. The Blue Eagle is an eagle without talons, whether or not there be compliance boards in every hamlet in the republic. The Blue Eagle forfeited its hopes for even a temporary success when it backed down on collective bargaining, which is the only sane path to industrial democracy. It did not back down because the President was losing courage, or because the great interests had an undue influence on the formation of his policy. It backed down because it was making pretensions to something which it did not have, and something which, if it had been...