Word: reclaimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armies of unemployed encamped in Potomac Park, the President is ready. Under a careful scheme and picked leaders he organizes them into a National Reconstruction Corps, on the Federal payroll. As labor battalions on public works they reclaim land in the West, construct power dams in the Midwest, build highways in the East. Army discipline jacks up the workers' morale. Family allowances deducted from their wages care for their wives and children. So successful is N. R. C. that its principles eventually alter the whole character of U. S. organized labor...
...Surrealiste artist is interested in externalizing the experiences that take place in the remote spaces of consciousness. He attempts to reclaim for painting the regions that lie beyond logic. He is experimenting at the very edge of the expressable and the communicable. Surrealisme has the triple lure of the unexpected, the censurable and the remote; and at its best it is embarrassingly comprehensible...
Toward the end, when he thinks he has failed to make Violet Kemble Cooper love him, M. God doubts himself. He regains his composure, however, by the time the keeper of the lunatic asylum comes to reclaim him. "If God came to earth," shrewdly explains M. God, "where else could he stay?" Left alone for a moment he makes his escape by walking out through the audience...
...Passed (second reading) with an approval natural to landed proprietors the Labor Government's bill to "reclaim" 1,000,000 acres, create 100,000 new small farms, send 500,000 unemployed men "back to the land...
Jammed to overflowing, Manhattan's Mecca Temple rocked with thunderous mass cheers as Zionist Mordecai Danzis shouted: "If necessary we will recruit Jewish legions to reclaim Palestine! Tens of thousands will volunteer...