Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this same spirit, Washington last week was a welter of Pan-American projects, studies, conferences. An Inter-American cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
...dull and darkly melancholy as a three-volume peasant tragedy has been the story of U. S. housing. Many a good citizen, trying to keep awake through a synopsis of the preceding chapters, has found his spirit saddened, his eyes closing, his head nodding. To maintain even its present inadequate housing level, the U. S. needs 525,000 new housing units a year for ten years. Under present conditions, the nation has no chance whatever of reaching this total...
Likely reason for the ban on Look: it reprinted phony atrocity pictures of World War I to remind people how war spirit was whipped up. This might come under the head of reports "likely to prejudice the recruiting, training, discipline or administration . . . of His Majesty's forces...
Against a background of the broken-body horror of civilian bombings in the Chinese war, a convincing psychological problem is finally resolved. This is the substance of "Disputed Passage," a Paramount picture patterned on Lloyd C. Douglas's best seller which seems to have imbibed much of the spirit of the original...
...very spirit of the holiday has been damaged. An undergraduate wishing to spend a day of prayer and reunion around the family turkey in New York will find he is a week too late. If he wants to use his Thursday as a warm-up for the Yale week-end, he is forced to go to classes on the twenty-third. And when, a week later, he bangs on the door of Sever or Emerson, he will be refused admittance--refused the centuries-old tradition of study treasured by Harvard...