Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Told the press he will ask Congress to extend beyond next June the State Department's powers to conclude reciprocal trade agreements, thus coming to the aid of beleaguered Secretary Cordell Hull. >Mourned the death of President Juan Arosemena of Panama (see p. 57). ^ Presented to Mrs. Richard Aldrich...
Last July Congress authorized the Smith Committee to investigate the Wagner Act, to find out whether the Labor Board had been fair, to see what amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work...
There are 13 Atlantas in the U. S., but only one mattered last week.* Atlanta, Ga. was the place where Gone With the Wind opened (see p. 30); where Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh passed by and the Negroes said: "I seen 'em!"; where Banker Robert Strickland wept for Melanie and said: "By God, I'm not ashamed"; where young ladies in their grandmas' crinolines and young bucks in fawn vests and pantaloons skittered through Peachtree Street and Henry Grady Square at dawn; where old, old people remembered the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman and the flames...
...their way through the crowded safety zone. In the Yard, the snow will fall, eventually to melt away undisturbed by the usual hands of the students scooping up the flakes and pounding them into snowballs. Passengers in the great airliners flying over Cambridge will still look down and say, "See all those brick buildings by the river there, that's Harvard." But Harvard really won't be there any more...
With no pretense of presenting an international expert's data and conclusions, Earle's book is nevertheless a valuable and very readable account of what happened before the lamps of Europe died once more. And of particular importance to Harvard, Blackout reveals what an undergraduate would see, hear, and feel of a war-bound Europe...