Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began with a preamble, in which the President dismissed the campaign against his bill to reorganize the Executive branch of the Federal Government (TIME, April 4) as "organized effort on the part of political or special self-interest groups." There followed a letter, dated two days earlier, to a friend whose name the President said he was withholding "because he did not write for publicity purposes." In the letter the President set forth, in 1,100 words, not only his personal disinclination to be a U. S. dictator but his objections to proposed amendments in the Reorganization Bill. Loudly demanded...
...Vice Premier also declared and the People's Commissars affirmed that "self-satisfaction and conceit" are prevalent vices among the Soviet Arctic scientists; moreover, that under Hero Schmidt there have been employed "methods of selecting personnel which provided an excellent base for the criminal anti-Soviet activities of wreckers...
...Chekhov's best play, The Sea Gull ranks well below his incomparable Cherry Orchard, his moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine...
...Tests made six months afterwards showed, however, that much of its effect was unimpaired. A method of "incidental learning" proved, however, to be more effective than propaganda. Pupils in Catholic parochial schools, who had a system of self-government, proved to be more stern toward violators of the law than those...
...Meanwhile, introduced in Congress by Senator Carter Glass with Franklin Roosevelt's approval was a bill to restore to RFC the power to make loans to "any business enterprise" which is unable to find funds elsewhere. RFC's original power to make self-liquidating loans was given to PWA in 1933 and RFC lending power is now limited by numerous restrictions. The Glass amendment is suggested only as an emergency measure to expire in a year's time...