Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekend, President Roosevelt last week released the report of his Commission on Industrial Relations in Great Britain, basic document for next winter's Congressional debates on altering the National Labor Relations Act. It is a cogent, dispassionate, impartial treatise, the product of nine good minds working in politely self-critical harmony.- Its findings were purely factual. It contained no shadow of moralizing for the benefit of U. S. employers, employes or politicians...
...suspense over Czechoslovakia one way or the other by revealing his intentions in this proclamation. But Der Fuhrer had a whole week of speech-making to his Nazis before him. and the Proclamation only heightened the world's suspense by saying, with reference to Germany's self-sufficiency, "the idea of a blockade of Germany already may be abandoned as a totally ineffectual weapon...
...politics had only a self-conscious interest for the country mailmen. As Civil Servants they were more interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick...
...situation seriously threatened to get out of hand when Sudeten German headquarters issued a trouble-kindling proclamation: "The Party leadership is not able any longer to assume responsibility for the freedom and property of its supporters. We, therefore, withdraw the instruction not to exercise the right of self defense. Party members in every case are free, when attacked, to make use of this right...
...when the left-wing press said his Tom Paine should have been written by "a competent Marxist." In a lame conclusion he tells in detail how he wrote each of his biographies, stresses above all the need for complete candor. In the light of this maxim, his own self-biography will seem to most readers a conspicuous exception...