Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...
...tells how his recent sickness was due to the rotten hours, the long jumps on one nighters, the nervous tension that all musicians live under. He shows how the music business is rotten with commercialism. Booking offices, agents, song pluggers, and the big broadcasting chains all come in for their share of panning. I don't think that there is much doubt that Shaw is absolutely right in what he says about all of this. His only trouble on these points is that he didn't make them strong enough. So far so good. But Shaw goes...
Author Green's views on C. I. O. are strictly A. F. of L.: that C. I. O. is the rotten fruit of John Lewis' personal, destructive ambition. True to A. F. of L. tradition, Author Green insists that Labor's base and strength are in the shop, that political activity must be nonpartisan and secondary. But, surveying the corporate structure of modern business, he worriedly notes "points of control which Labor cannot reach by collective bargaining alone," goes on to preach Government regulation (and even ownership of railroads), when & where private enterprise "cannot alone adjust itself...
...island, outfitted the schooner Ayesha (97 tons) and, in spite of warnings by the Englishmen on the island about her unseaworthiness, set sail in her shortly after the battle. The boat had accommodations for a crew of five men and the captain. They were 56. They sailed her, rotten as she was, I believe about 2,000 miles, across the Indian Ocean. They transferred (near Padang) to a North German Lloyd steamer Choising and reached Hodeida...
...very serious little dinners. The other guests are Republicans who have high hopes of a GOP resurgence in 1940. At one of these dinners last week ex-President Hoover feelingly referred to ex-Hero Lindbergh. Lindbergh, said he, was an earnest, sincere young American who succumbed to some rotten advice...