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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next fiscal year starting next July. He also asked for an extra $300,000,000 for CCC, National Youth Administration and the Farm Security Administration. The total of $1,550,000,000 would enable the Government to maintain relief expenditures after July 1 at approximately the current rate-$200,000,000 per month...
Contemplators of Land of the Free will probably rate it above Panic and The Fall of the City, But they will feel both worried and baffled. The bafflement they can blame on a hybrid art form that at least is earnestly ambitious, at worst is a humorless bollix. The worry they can blame on Poet MacLeish's extraordinary ability to hit topical points straight on the head with whatever instrument happens to come to hand. The conclusion they will probably draw is that Archibald MacLeish is so much of a poet that even his bad books make good points...
Money accumulated from contributions to the fund will be turned over each year to the University where it will be invested at the current rate of compound interest. This money is to be put aside until 1963, when it will be turned over to the University as the 1938 class gift on its twenty-fifth Anniversary...
That Whitman might have been inspired by the powerful social movement at the time of the Civil War, that he might, for a few years, at least, have been a real poet, Author Shephard will not admit. Says she, the whole thing was a pose, based on a second-rate French novel. As a result, her book is likely to stand as a carefully documented, well worded, 453-page demonstration of its author's unfortunate inability to understand Whitman, his poems, or his times...
Describing the present British foreign policy as "an evil policy dedicated to the preservation of the decaying structure of European capitalism," Laski said that the new rearmament program will make any constructive social program impossible for more than a generation. The tax rate necessary to support both would be impossible, he said...