Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long predicted ruin and woe from G.O. Policies on tariff and foreign affairs. Again & again he harped: "The practice of the half-insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten years by America and the world is the largest single underlying cause of the world panic. The mad pursuit of economic nationalism has proved disastrous...
...papers and by the people; but the fact that the advent of beer was attended by every conceivable trouble save that rather pleasant one of inebriety has been generally glossed over. The control measure itself was passed at the last minute, after the legislators, doddering cheerfully along in pursuit of such problems as the feasibility of serving beer withing 400 feet of a church, had wasted a maximum of time and had thrown the press and populace into confusion. When the bill appeared finally, it was found to contain such elfin provisions as that forbidding beer drinking in a standing...
...from worldly care is the pursuit of "ecological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rain forest remnant in East Africa, with a view to elucidating the origins of certain genera only known from the Uluguru and Usambara forests, and throwing light upon the dispersal of isolated, sylvicoline forms common to the Cameroon Mountains of the west and the Usambara Mountains of the East Coast." That is what Herpetologist Arthur Loveridge of Harvard University is going to do this year, and he will get something like $2,500 for doing it. Last week he and 37 other scholars...
General Houses. In Hubbard Woods, Ill. on the high bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an oblong dwelling, severe and clean as a pursuit plane. Pullman Co. cooperated in the fabrication of its steel walls, Container Corp. in the development of its insulation. It is occupied by Ruth Page, able modernistic opera and concert ballerina. Dancer Page's husband is able Lawyer Thomas H. Fisher, son of Walter L. Fisher who served as President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Dancer Page's brother-in-law is tall, yellow-haired Howard T. Fisher, architect, who with another lawyer...
...Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic nationalism or aloofness-every nation striving to live unto itself-has proved utterly empty and disastrous. The practice of the half-insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten years by America and the world is the largest single underlying cause of the present world panic. . . . Economic disarmament...