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...Pump-Primer. If Administration political strategy is important to Mr. Hopkins in his long-term program for work-relief, so is his relief program important to the Administration in its immediate plan for recovery. Among other Spenders & Lenders busy at their desks in Washington last week were...
...cruelty toward his own officers (he humors the rank-&-file, who dote on him). The high point of his officer-discipline is when he flogs an officer who has shot two Cossacks, then burns him at the stake-a scene which puts all stories of lynching in the primer class...
There is no primer of modern poetry. Readers who are intimidated by its obscurity soon find that most prose explanations tend to become almost as obscure as the poems, and generally duller. And they usually conclude, sometimes with a feeling that they may be missing something, but more often with a conviction that they are not, that contemporary poetry is a doubtful contribution to the world they know. John Crowe Ransom's The World's Body is not a primer of poetry, but it contains one of the clearest explanations of the obscurity of contemporary verse which...
...Called by Historian Henry Steele Commager the most thorough and dispassionate book on the subject that has appeared, America Goes to War* is a volume of 731 closely-printed pages, with controversial footnotes swarming like bees around the bottom of most pages, is at once a history and a primer of diplomacy...
Although last autumn in the interest of economy he came out against the building of public roads, President Roosevelt last week dignified the super-highway idea by endorsing Senator Bulkley's self-payment plan as a business pump primer, and by suggesting that through excess condemnation of land a mile each side of the superhighways the Government might realize a profit when land values rose...