Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make fun of us because we try to step up production of eggs per hen or milk per cow? We have to, unless we want to make debts-and is it not more honorable for a poor man to work hard and to be saving, rather than borrow from his neighbors...
Future at 70. These objectives might seem rather meagre were it not for the fact that the drive for them is already bound up with the campaign of 1940. All those who become serious candidates for the next Democratic Presidential nomination will find the issues ready made for them by the quiet struggle now going...
...Cactus Jack" Garner leads current polls for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 and Mr. Hurja does not mind saying that the forces now putting Mr. Garner ahead will keep him there through the 1940 Democratic convention. Political events, says Mr. Hurja, nowadays follow the drift of such polls rather than the drift of cigar smoke in hotel rooms. To answer yes-butters who say, "But if Mr. Roosevelt decides to run again . . .?" Mr. Hurja has only to point again to the polls: 53% of all Democrats are now counted against a Third Term...
Dodging the Lightning? John Garner has no great mind. He serves no great cause. His fundamental difference with Franklin Roosevelt is in the matter of property rights. "I had rather see my party wrecked," he says, "than to see my country ruined." Garner has appreciated property ever since he ran away from a home which had little, became a lawyer, married an heiress (Ettie Rheiner, his secretary ever since). Demons to him, as a Texas millionaire, are the multimillionaires of Wall Street. He is a Uvalde, Tex. banker tried & true (with mortgages on half the town) and therefore suspicious...
...same kind. Tutorial and written papers are both steps in the right direction. Most important of all is that the teachers of the social sciences realize that their main object is not to present their field to the student on a platter for him to absorb but rather to teach the student how to learn and guide him in his study...