Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal control of what had become a nation-wide traffic and abolition of the saloon are great steps forward which should be maintained... Mr. Anderson has proposed a well-thought-out plan, based on study of systems of liquor control and their operation. His plan deserves careful consideration as the best and most complete plan which has been brought to our attention. This or some like plan for adapting national control to local conditions may well be the next forward step...
...effect, the University in its position as a monopolist has taken a step which may exclude some of its present students, and future men of similar financial standing. Seen in conjunction with the raise of tuition from $300 to $400, this new increase in the cost of education means that the University will be setting higher financial standards than its most populous class of undergraduates can bear...
What brought Chairman Payne to the Capitol was the fact that the Red Cross was under political fire. Senators from drought States were charging that it had fallen down on its relief job, were demanding that the U. S. Government step in and feed hungry husbandmen. Congressional attention had again been focussed on drought relief by last fortnight's demonstration at England, Ark. where 500 men & women with threats of violence obtained food from local merchants (TIME...
...Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business as a low-grade stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict, and finally dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine...
Those of you who saw the film in America (I personally saw it eight times) will find it difficult to see in it anything that might be called definitely "Anti-German". Most of us I believe felt it rather to be a step in the other direction. For us it seemed more "Anti-War" than anything else. Perhaps also the obvious Americanism of the cast and the international handling of the plot made us forget that the story dealt with German soldiers, in German uniforms, singing occasionally German songs, with what passed as a German setting. For us then...