Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months various newshawks have more than once thought they detected signs of the disease of Presidents in Franklin Roosevelt. Last week most of them were sure. The middling-sized businessmen who compose the rank & file of the Chamber of Commerce-who for more than a year have opposed many aspects of the New Deal, but who, for diplomatic reasons, have previously been kept by their tycoon leaders from expressing their feelings-had finally ridden roughshod over those who counseled them to speak softly, had passed a set of resolutions bluntly objecting to the Administration's banking, utilities...
Oliver Scott was put in to stroke the other set of eight oarsmen which presumably is third in rank as well as numerically...
...Last week he published an experimental "interlude"-a story that was as different from his melodramas-washed-in-realism as it could well be. Though Under the Linden Tree is a full-length (200-page) novel, it is really a fairytale, of the same order, though not the same rank, as Max Beerbohm's Happy Hypocrite...
...with the exception of the late Eugene R. Black as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, President Roosevelt has lifted no Georgian to high place as Cabinet member, ambassador, brain-truster, first-rank administrator. His CWA and NRA nettled Georgians by boosting the price of their cheap labor. His AAA drained the tills of Georgia textile millers with the cotton processing tax. His FERA humiliated Georgia by adjudging its elected officials incompetent to administer relief, appointing a Federal representative in their stead. His PWA last week canceled four loans to Georgia, impugned the good faith of its Governor...
...title refer to the dwindling minority who remain stubbornly loyal to the old U. S. traditions. She compares them to birds whose love of home overcomes their fear of winter. Like As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones is a quiet and well-told tale of the second rank...