Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Taft is proud to call himself a middle-of-the-roader, a moderate, a mugwump. Thesis of You And I-And Roosevelt is that to win the 1936 campaign Republicans must appeal to other moderates who like progress but not too much of it, and that much not too fast. Those moderates, he warns, are in sympathy with most of the New Deal aims. He himself likes its tariff policies, its securities and stock exchange regulation, its bank deposit insurance, its handling of strikes and championship of Labor. He approves of public works, regulation of public utilities (including government...
...quarterback will call for a new play," announced Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke last week. The quarterback was again Franklin Roosevelt, and he had just called a new play by appointing Administrator Cooke to be chairman of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee of six, including Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins and Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell. What play the President would call next for the drought areas depended last week on what this little brain trust hatched out before his trip to the West this month...
...That the Arlington Classic will eventually be worth $100,000 and the most celebrated horse race in the world was the proud prospect offered to Chicago last week by the Arlington Park Jockey Club's Founder John Daniel Hertz. Discussing the track's policy and progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid all but $700,000 of the $5,000,000 debt it incurred seven years ago. When the $700,000 is written off, Arlington Park, only non-profit race track in the U. S., will put its surplus into plant improvements, richer prizes...
...drivers cause most accidents, but experts agree that it is hopeless to expect "voluntary rehabilitation." The driver must be externally restrained from killing himself. Against the overwhelming U. S. urge to go places fast, the idea of speed governors for automobiles has made no progress. Even if it did, it would do little good, for only 9% of all accidents are directly attributable to speeds of 50 m.p.h. or more. Structurally, the automobile is nearly perfect, only 5% of accidents arising from mechanical failure. This leaves only highway improvement as a real means to traffic safety...
...progress last week on the Atlantic was the first ocean yacht race from Hamilton. Bermuda, to Cuxhaven, Germany. Sailing the 3,000-mile course and expected to finish this week were twelve little boats, seven from Germany, two from the U. S.. one each from The Netherlands, Sweden, the Free City of Danzig...