Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most northerly point of President Roosevelt's vacation cruise was his summer home at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, four miles from Eastport, Me., which he visited for the first time since the shock of its cold waters brought on his paralysis twelve years ago. There, his most serious guest was Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, come to report that in spite of all his efforts, the Geneva Arms Conference had adjourned to October. Its 14-year record of accomplishment still o, many pronounced the Conference a dead fish. But President Roosevelt, bland, told a Campobello crowd...
...career, greying, long-necked Neville Chamberlain opened the Budget last week in a speech that took two hours and left most of his listeners wry-mouthed. There were few open complaints. "Unimaginative" and "uninspired" were the favorite adjectives of the British Press. The U. S. Press's first shock was the discovery that Neville Chamberlain's Budget contained no provision for the $75,950,000 War debt installment due the U. S. on June 15. But then it was recollected that last year's Budget contained no War Debts provision either. Far more important was a guarded...
...news is it for Labor to favor shorter working hours, nor for politicians to favor shorter working hours for their constituents. Not so great news is it as formerly for manufacturers to favor shorter working hours. Nonetheless it was a shock to many a businessman to learn last week that Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, appearing before a committee of Congress favored if not a 30-hour week at least the next thing to it. A bill before Congress (TIME, Jan. 23) would prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce of goods manufactured in any plant where workers labored more...
Profoundest aim of Russia's Piatiletki (FiveYear Plans) is to change human nature. To transform drudgery-begrudging serfs into enthusiastic labor "shock-troops"' might seem a big enough ambition, but U.S.S.R. plans go deeper than that. The Communist gospel is in truth a religion-a religion that teaches its adherents a new morality, and no good Communist is happy till he gets it. Most U.S.S.R. novels have been propaganda for the Communist State; Author Romanof's is propaganda for the Communist Individual...
...Elkhart, Ind., Morris Shock appeared in court for operating an oversized truck (72 ft. long), was asked bv Judge Conley what he was hauling. Replied Shock, "A whale." Released, Shock & whale proceeded to Chicago's World's Fair...