Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successive all-time peak for WPA rolls in as many weeks, a new high of 3,102,000 clients. At the same time he proudly made another announcement: that 166,167 WPAsters had left the rolls in July (a 6.1% monthly turnover), of whom 40,000 gave as their reason that they were taking private jobs. "These facts." asserted Mr. Williams, "indicate that WPA is fulfilling its mission of supplying temporary employment in periods of emergency rather than 'careers,' as has frequently been charged...
...paid Filipino farm workers, houseboys, janitors, cooks. Half are in California, 97% are bachelors about 30 years old. "The boys," explained Dr. Hilario C. Moncado, president of the Filipino Federation of America, "do not want to go back without money or assurance they will earn a living." Another good reason is that in some cases boys are loathe to leave a country where, as a California judge remarked (TIME, April 13, 1936), they boast of enjoying the favors of white girls because they are a very superior grade of lovers...
...world this week, Czechoslovakia was a heroic nation. Its President Eduard Benes not only proved himself heroic, but was hailed with even more reason than at any time during the last 20 years as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." After Dr. Benes received the British and French demand that he yield to Germany most of the Sudeten territory of Czechoslovakia, it was smart to keep the Great Powers waiting nervously for 30 hours last week while in Prague the President and Premier Milan Hodza labored with legal experts, finally produced not a note of capitulation but a suave reply...
...great many more people can be killed by a given weight of high explosive bombs than by the same weight of gas bombs. . . . Gas was not used against the towns [in Spain] for this reason...
...20th Century traditional theology has taken a back-seat to political ideology, has not even done much back-seat driving. Reason: theologians, unlike political ideologists, have not known exactly where they want to go, nor how fast. Princeton Theological Seminary's President Dr. John Alexander Mackay, an articulate, lofty-minded Presbyterian with missionary experience, summed the matter up in his "historymaking" inaugural address at Princeton last year: "The new crusading religions (Fascism, Naziism, Communism) . . . are schooled in massive thought systems, which make the average Christians who come up against them feel like infants. . . . The churches must return to theology...