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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. "It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope. . . . We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor and Mrs. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Swearing in the Rain | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Reproductions in water color made for the American Index of Design, a project of the Works Progress Administration, form an exhibition at the Fogg Museum that is quite novel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

China has also been increasing her military strength, and the centralization of her government has made great progress, due to a growing feeling of nationalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simmons Professor Forsees Trouble In Japan Resulting From War Policy | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...sixteen reaching out to the Far West and deep South. In President Conant's plan, as compared to the relatively romantic and revolutionary proposals of Hutchin's recent essay, "The Higher Learning in America", there is the practicality of the scientist, and that empirical element of moderation and progress which Burke called "the inevitibility of gradualness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD REACHES THE PACIFIC | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

...remember being very worked up about the problem in hand and refusing to quit till I had my say. I was very doctrinaire in my defense of the (I suppose) obscurantist position that it all didn't amount to that. That progress was a myth and science just encouraged it to be one that we had been better off hundreds of years ago when people had never heard of progress and never stopped their plowing for a minute to think of it. That we lived and ate and sang and suffered and died and we had better do them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

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