Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brain Truster Raymond Moley in the last of a series of Saturday Evening Post articles ("Five Years of Roosevelt-and After") last week related that in 1933, just before his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt horrified his advisers by receiving two crackpot money theorists at Warm Springs, Ga. The President-elect huddled with them for two hours, had a grand time comparing heresies. "The hero of this adventure would be no stranger to the Roosevelt of today. There is the same physical courage, the same friendliness, the same susceptibility to the new and untried," reflected Mr. Moley...
...higher grades his pupils visited farms, stores, police stations, post offices, airports, radio stations, studied transportation, geography, science, nature, all the while learning "Obedience to God," "Membership in Christ," "The Creed." Meanwhile, they had lessons each day in music, the three...
...Chicago's steel mills 1,000 more men were employed last week, employment reached 80,000, already within 2,000 of the post-depression (1937) peak...
...propeller business Curtiss and Hamilton Standard (Pratt & Whitney corporate brother) were turning out all the props business needs without straining capacity and companies like The Sperry Gyroscope Co. had capacity for turning out plenty of instruments for every ship under order. The biggest problem of the industry may be post war: how to make use of its spawning capacity when war orders...
...Alton, Ill., in a period when a girl was "much more than a girl," young Hapgood was athletic, introspective, drawn to people "who are not worth while." At Harvard he read Shelley and Wordsworth, was complimented by Santayana for a deeply philosophical remark: "All girls are beautiful." Post-graduate study in Europe included art museums, mistresses, drinking, sightseeing, conversation, desultory reading. Said young Novelist Robert Herrick one day: "Hutch, you don't do a damned thing, do you?" Like many another obtuse observer, says Hapgood, Herrick was apparently correct. But "if I wasn't busy, something was busy...