Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advertising broadcasts have long since been banned in most countries which, like France, charge listeners a license fee on their sets. Money thus collected pays for all broadcasts, state-produced and always more or less loaded with stodgy stuff which the state considers good for citizens...
When NRA needed a general counsel, Administrator Hugh Johnson thought of his old friend Donald Randall Richberg in Chicago. Temperamentally the two were poles apart but Lawyer Richberg's professional brilliance and political liberalism were the stuff General Johnson wanted. As an inducement Friend Johnson gave Friend Richberg his own top NRA salary, $14,000, took for himself the counsel's smaller pay ($6,800). Thus was Counsel Richberg grandly launched upon the New Deal...
Even at that, he was only following U. S. public interest, not leading it. Within the last few months munitions and their manufacture have become the stuff of which headlines are made. Ever since the War the U. S. has teemed with anti-war feeling. The veterans had it. Public-spirited citizens had it. Women's clubs had it. Priests and preachers had it. Men might scratch their heads over the rights and wrongs of social or economic questions but it took no second thought to agree that War was Evil. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for limitation of naval...
...consequences of last week's rough stuff: for Klein, a dislocated shoulder, mild concussion, eight stitches in his head; for Stewart, indefinite suspension...
...What's the use? If you don't have a big name, the editors won't even look at your manuscript. . . . Why, there's better stuff rejected every day, than what gets into print. . . ." As to every editor who ever bought a piece of fiction, that chronic complaint of obscure authors came again & again to Editor Sumner Newton Blossom of American Magazine. He knew it to be nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn...