Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world the Reorganization Bill represented was an effort on the part of Franklin Roosevelt to make himself a dictator. That it was attacked as precisely this proved that to a large section of the U. S. any administrative change which the President now suggests can be made to seem ipso facto suspect. It also proved that no kind of Congress wants to give up patronage, for one of the most important phases of the bill would have facilitated putting hundreds of appointive jobs under Civil Service...
...remarkable as the wide differences in the two bills was a fundamental similarity of purpose: to lift some of the tax pressure from the point at which wealth is ventured. To many an economist this seemed the surest possible way of offering capital the fullest inducement to get busy and help itself out of the current depression. That the tax reforms crossed the Administration's three-year policy was a matter which did not seem greatly to concern Congress...
...forever running across young men who seem to overlook that they necessarily must commence in their early years by the study and application of ideals to concrete problems. No one occupying the top positions today ever passed up such an opportunity for practical training in their 20's and 30's. Now they are the leaders in their 40's and 50's. Your conference at Yale this spring should offer you a first-rate example of this type of training...
Dean Westergaard chose not to reply to the question. "Why is the Bureau going to Yale?", as did Maxwell Halsey, assistant director of the Bureau. The latter, however, declared that "there just seem to be more pluses at Yale all the way round...
Zoltan Kodal's Te Deum reaches heights of beauty rarely heard in any music old or new. Although Kodaly wrote this work for a national Hungarian festival, there seem to be no definite Hungarian traits in the music. His style is, rather cosmopolitan. To speak of the weaknesses first, this modern composer is not a master of the fugue. His individual lines are strong and clean, but he is sloppy in combining them...