Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master word-painter that he is, Mr. Roosevelt painted once more the sombre scene of war preparations in Europe, of foreboding peoples, massing armies, cities full of women & children trembling beneath a sky that soon might rain horror. (Ambassador Joe Davies had reported home from Belgium that very morning, "not at all happy about the situation.") Cordell Hull picked up the narrative when his chief was through, but was presently interrupted by leonine Senator Borah. He, too, he said, receives advices from abroad. Moreover, he reads foreign newspapers. He begged to differ with the chiefs of state that...
...Neath the darkening English sky...
Into the black sky above the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, Calif, four great searchlights stabbed. They stood like steady swords of light-or like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage...
...wild love song until its wailing notes sweep the stars into one tear of pity for her breaking heart. But no answer comes. ... If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon, then life itself is a myth and the starry blazonry of the midnight sky is a flaunting lie. .. . Nature is not a cheat and Life is not a flirtation. Our hope for immortality cannot be a colossal joke...
...Department of Labor uphold the Secretary of the Treasury's inner circle reputation as a prophet when it announced that factory employment for May was off 1.1 points more than seasonally (to 90.1 on its index). Many a U. S. businessman saw a patch of blue sky early in May, when there was a flurry in steel (TIME, May 22), but last week it seemed only to have been a hole in the overcast...