Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assertion that the business collapse was world-wide was derided. Summing up, Nominee Roosevelt declared the Hoover Administration "encouraged speculation and overproduction . . . attempted to minimize the crash . . . forgot reform." Picking phrases out of the Hoover acceptance speech, Governor Roosevelt continued: "Now I believe in the intrepid soul of the American people; but I believe also in its horse-sense. ... I, too, believe in individualism . . . but I don't believe that in the names of that sacred word a few powerful interests should be permitted to make industrial cannon-fodder of the lives of half the population of the United...
...Timid Soul...
...Shanghai. On pain of a general strike, the Chinese Seamen & Pilots' Association ordered Chinese shipowners to refuse to refuel with Japanese coal. In Shanghai two new boycott clubs were formed, known respectively as The Purified Heart & Hot Blood Corps for the Extermination of Traitors, and The Blood & Soul Society...
...cinema that to expect them to control the lubricity of anything else would seem too much. Yet the Hays organization sometimes attempts it. Last year, regulations against salacious cinemadvertising were added to the industry's code. Last week came another incident to heat and bother the upright Presbyterian soul of Tsar Hays. In Motion Picture Magazine appeared an interview with decadent-looking Tallulah Bankhead (daughter of Alabama's onetime Representative William Brockman Bankhead). written by one Gladys Hall. Reported Miss Hall: "I am told that Tallul' is never decently hypocritical. . . . She reveals All- and more than...
...With hands which are usually busy knitting, Chairwoman Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy, a motherly soul who is president of the Needlework Guild of America and whose husband used to run Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit, took up a pencil and rapped on a table for order. Her signal got the attention of a potent segment of the nation's womanpower...