Word: presentness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Sherman said: 'Madam, you got spunk'"). Last week Atlanta was more self-conscious of its present and its past than any other U. S. town...
...peace of Europe. . . . The argument tonight rests on the premise that there exists today a reasonably possible ground for successful negotiation. It was precisely that premise that I tried to show last week-with great regret and not without knowledge-that I doubted. . . . I do not believe that at present there is evidence enough to justify the course recommended by Lord Darnley. . . . I am always prepared to negotiate. . . . It does not need much imagination to see the damage which some of the speeches made tonight are capable of inflicting on the nation's cause...
...think, however, that I am alone in saying that the recent internecine conflict within the Union has been somewhat disillusioning. As a result of Tuesday's meeting it now appears that at least four of the seven executive committee members are more or less active supporters of the present Russian government. These individuals and their spiritual fellows though in a minority were able to muster what was, for some liberal members, a rather surprising show of hands in support of the most radical of the three motions; the one applauding Mr. Stalin for his recent display of benevolence and pacifism...
...course will use the tools of economic analysis, applying them to the present problem. Economics of past wars; market organization, price control and rationing; money and banking in war times; the relation of money and public and private capital markets; and the relation of war to economic fluctuations will be dealt with in the lectures and reading...
...course will obviously run more smoothly next year, but the only way to get rid of all the red tape and arbitrary regulations which thrive at present, is to have the C. A. A. establish offices in their most important districts throughout the country, instead of trying to run the whole business from Washington. The University and the Aeronautics instructors will do justice to the course at Harvard only when they are freed from the shackles of a distant and inefficient organization...