Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From which oil-poor Italy still buys the raw materials to make aviation gasoline which powers planes to shoot at Russian pilots in Spain...
...hard-boiled and runs as follows: 1) The Liberal party's present leader and inspirer was the creature of the Democratic political barons. In fact, until Jim Farley did his job in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was only one more baron; 2) A Liberal party will always be a "poor" party, therefore ideas must make it tick instead of money; 3) If the New Deal is to survive under Franklin Roosevelt or anyone else, as a Liberal party beyond 1940, its ideas must be churned into the local electorates, right down into the precincts whence Congressional and Presidential majorities sprout...
...works. David Lewis also: got labor unions exempted from the anti-trust laws; wrote the guts of the Guffey-Snyder coal act; handled telephones & telegraphs during the War- (and would have been President Wilson's Postmaster General but for political exigencies); has fought Inflation and the Bonus. Churchmouse poor, erudite and intellectually passionate, he dares to do what other Congressmen would tremble at: shut himself up in his office and refuse to see constituents...
...Hollywood, Radioldster Lee De Forest, inventor 31 years ago of the audion radio tube which made long-range broadcasting possible, celebrated his 65th birthday by telling reporters how little he thinks of broadcasting, 1938 style: "I seldom tune in. . . . The programs, all swing and croon, are not only poor, but the interruptions for commercial announcements are maddening. . . . Isn't it sickening? It isn't at all as I imagined it would...
...rebuild a women's college, is accompanied by a long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with no chapels, lectures or degrees, made of wood instead of stained glass and ivy, teaching music, literature, conversation, cooking. But she knows that the graduates of colleges must get jobs; she is too familiar with 19th-Century methods of educating women to be indignant about 20th-Century methods...