Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Stand." As Socialist Thomas saw it last week, the U. S. is heading for a "highly nationalistic form of Fascism" which will be "the last stand of Capital-ism." The country, he believes, is ripe for a dictatorship, with the mass of people stunned into inaction by the Depression. All that is lacking is the dictator himself. The Bonus Expeditionary Force encamped at the capital, he once thought, offered fertile soil for such a backward movement but its leaders did not measure up to the political opportunity. "If the country wasn't so sprawling." declared Socialist Thomas...
...step backward. . . . The preamble asserts that the time is ripe for disarmament but all the subsequent contents of the resolution represent an utter negation of that assertion." Suiting action to his words the Soviet Delegate moved to amend the resolution by inserting into it the chief, concrete features of the Hoover Plan. Three votes were taken and on all three the U. S. Ambassador voted against insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could...
...many of them socialites, at Harmon. Still keeping mum, the God Man visited San Francisco, suddenly went to Shanghai where he stayed one day, "for spiritual reasons." Last week Meher Baba was to have spoken. But he changed his mind, announced through his secretary that "conditions are not yet ripe." He indicated they would be ripe next February...
World's Work lived to be 32, a fairly ripe age for a magazine. It was founded by the late Walter Hines Page, then a partner in the publishing firm of Doubleday Page, who edited it from 1900 until 1913 when he was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James. He was succeeded by his son Arthur Wilson Page, now vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and successively by Carl Chandlee Dickey, Barton Wood Currie (previously editor of Ladies' Home Journal), Russell Doubleday, Alan C. Collins...
...much more believable as publisher of Outlook than as publisher of Spur. Rough-&-ready, earthy, amazingly energetic, simple in his tastes, his interests lie far afield from Spur's studied elegance. He is a natural and practiced politician. Now a Republican, he is convinced that the time is nearly ripe for a Third Party, sees an opportunity to rebuild Outlook's influence to what it was in Roosevelt...