Word: power
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must recognize . . . that we can't get more out of the economic system than we put in ... and that monetary and fiscal tricks have no power of magic but are a slippery road to misery...
Last week the President also: <| Nominated two prominent Democratic job-hunters to $15,000-a-year jobs: Washington's former Governor Mon C. Wall-gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade Commission. The Senate quickly confirmed them both, ^f Appointed Richard Feeney, 5, son of a White House employee, as an official White House squirrel feeder-providing i) the boy draws no pay, and 2) furnishes his own peanuts...
What stopped Curley from being a good governor was his attempt to gain power enough to form a state machine without setting up an efficient organization to do it. He tried to see everyone in the State and pass out jobs to everyone when the jobs just didn't exist; the Brahmins, looking out of their Beacon Hill bay windows were shocked by the long queues of unemployed emanating from the State House doors. That was the kind of thing that worked in City Hall, but couldn't possibly work on such a scale as the State of Massachusetts demanded...
...Commuters showed more power in the line in the second half, but their passing failed to click. Near the end of the game Dudley got down to the Leverett 7 yard-line, but lost the ball on downs. The Bunnies kicked out to the 40 and held for the rest of the game...
...triumph of honest melodrama--a film which faithfully records the melodrama of actual events. There is no toying with spectacular effects, no falsely dramatic sequences. As a result, the natural spectacle of the Antarctic and the genuine drama of Scott's struggle against it come through with clarity and power...