Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserves the kitchen knife. If he is against war, he will be accused of being a coward in giving way before your threats." Then the judge perfunctorily fined Editor Maurras $13, sentenced him to eight more months in jail. The hatred and fear roused in French Tories by the prospect of Socialist Leon Blum's Government last week served thrifty Paris socialites as an excuse to cancel big weddings and balls "to avoid provoking the Reds." Wealthy children in Paris' swank Pare Monceau marched around chanting derisively: "Blum! Blum! Blum...
...been promised as one of the highlights of the Popular Spring Season (TIME, May 25). The production was to be in a way experimental, with the singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar device had worked successfully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Cog d'Or, seemed ill-suited to the 18th Cen-tury Gluck, whom Isadora Duncan consistently referred to as the greatest of dance composers...
...same forces that brought on the last three great booms are at work today, and they are the same forces that are making for the much-publicized, longpredicted building boom. At the bottom of all this boom talk is the prospect of a U. S. housing shortage. Business recovery re-versed the short-lived back-to-the-farm trend, is now unscrambling families which doubled up for economy during Depression, has boosted the marriage rate, a fundamental real-estate statistic. The marriage rate drops far below normal in lean years, creating a "reserve" of unmarried people who hasten...
Popular with his rural constituents until he began maligning AAA, Senator Dickinson faces a hard fight for re-election this year. But that prospect has lately been assuaged by the buzzing in his large, well-shaped head of some such exciting thought as the following: "If Warren Harding could get the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920, why can't I get it in 1936?" Like Harding, "Dick" Dickinson, with his big frame, Roman features and shock of silver-white hair, makes a handsome, impressive figure. Like Harding, he would personify a return to normalcy after a hectic Democratic regime...
...FUTURE University of Kansas graduate, one Alfred Mossman Landon, was, in the year 1898, eleven years old and living in Pennsylvania. Six years later his father took the family out of Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy...