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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That there can be no real recovery until the fears of business have been allayed through the granting of a breathing spell to industry, and a recess from further experimentation until the country can recover its losses...
...This basic program, however, has now reached substantial completion, and the breathing spell of which you speak is here -very decidedly...
...Breathing spell" became the political catchphrase of the day. Delighted with the country's enthusiasm, President Roosevelt told newshawks at Hyde Park: "All I tried to do was to quiet the nerves of some of the boys." No less pleased was Publisher Howard who, before sailing from San Francisco, in effect, telegraphed the President as follows: "Your letter was fine. The story certainly went over...
...literary hair-splitters than any other recent effort of its kind. Considered on its own merits as a picture, it is the liveliest in which Greta Garbo has appeared since Mata Hari and should on this account delight millions of cinemaddicts who have never of Tolstoy and could not spell out his stories if they had. Good shot: Vronsky's first glimpse of Anna, through steam blowing across her face from the engine of the train...
...both went to Carthage Academy. After Carthage, young Harlow worked for a year as a newshawk, retains to this day a journalistic sense which makes his books (Flights from Chaos, Star Clusters) popular, his lectures non-soporific. At 20 he entered the University of Missouri, fell under the spell of Astronomer Frederick Hanley Scares and published, when he was a junior, a juicy paper on "Astronomy in Horace" with no less than 46 references to the works of that Latin poet. After a year of post-graduate work he went to Princeton as a research fellow in astronomy, made...