Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Britain is organizing to meet the air threat. Her air armada-pursuit planes, fast Handley Page Hampden bombers-is rapidly being increased as her manufacturing program begins to hit a good stride. The Royal Air Force is equal in morale to the German, its older pilots have had longer training. The British Army's mechanized units (tanks, armored cars), although too few for war strength, are the most advanced in the world. And its officers-neither scholars like the French nor technicians like the Germans-are excellent leaders of men, if only rule-of-thumb strategists...
...been accused of being an oppositionist, of having no program of her own. Dorothy Thompson has a program for herself. It is aristo-democratic, polysyllabic and not so very clear. Excerpts...
...instincts and most of my intelligence incline me toward conservatism. I distrust any program which does not carefully take into account the nature of man. I believe that fundamental, biological inequality is a fact of nature. I also believe that the instinct to preserve society is one of the highest sublimations of the erotic instinct plus reason and intelligence. The democratic idea, of the value of every human soul and the right of every human being to protect his own interests in so far as they do not too drastically infringe upon the interests of others...
...Since 1915 the Federation has given some $30,000 in prizes to young U. S. musicians. Winners last week in convention contests were Pianist Samuel Sorin ($1,000 and a chance to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra), Contralto Martha Lipton ($1,000 and a spot on a Firestone radio program), Violinists Bernard Kundell and Marion Head ($250 apiece...
...Mahoney's Monopoly Committee. He appeared at its investment bank hearings to tell how to fix up the capital market. Erudite, as usual, he backed up his remarks by allusions to economic bigwigs like England's John Maynard Keynes, Brookings Institution's Harold Glenn Moulton. His program took over three much-hashed New Deal recovery inducers, pronounced them not-radical, stamped them with the Berle trademark...