Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called a "memoir in the form of a novel." That is enough of a disclaimer to protect it from the accusation that it is not a novel at all but a profound and beautiful question-mark. It transcends, certainly, any pat classification into which you might try to slip it. The plot, except as a mere framework or skeleton on which the study of character hangs, is completely inconsequential. It could have developed a dozen different ways in a dozen different places without affecting the story's main interest, and this is its weakness as the plot of a novel...
Last Monday Franklin Roosevelt welcomed Secretary of War Bern at a pre-luncheon appointment in the Executive Office of the White House. As they were in the midst of an amiable discussion, a Presidential secretary entered, put a slip of paper in the President's hands. It was a newsflash: the U. S. Supreme Court had just declared AAA unconstitutional, lock, stock & barrel (see p. 12). How President Roosevelt received this staggering piece of information was afterwards described by Secretary Dern...
...precise moment that the President held the fateful slip of paper in his hands, his annual budget message was being droned aloud by Reading Clerks in Congress (see p. 11). No longer, however, did the figures of that budget total up as they had totaled when he gave it a last pat of approval and dispatched it to the Capitol. The Supreme Court's 6-to-3 decision had rendered the $547,000,000 worth of processing taxes, on which the President had counted, nothing more than a row of nine ciphers. Because no one yet knew how many...
...forget their damaging admissions and withdraw their abdication. [So excited were Democratic Congressmen that they cheered here, too, by mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer. . . . They offer. . . . They seek-let me put it that way," he interjected, covering up his slip. "They seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street. . . . "They steal the livery of great national constitutional ideals to serve discredited special interests. As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders, they...
...very definitely the privileges should be extended to all Freshmen at all invited occasions, and the means should be the ordinary inter-house slips. Last year's extra red tape of signing in advance in the Union, appropriate and Christmassy though it be, can be snipped, thereby not only ingratiating a thousand Freshmen, but also saving officials a lot of needless slip filing, book balancing, and general confusion...