Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When General Johnson went to the Midwest last month to stump for the NRA, he was invading a land embittered by falling agricultural prices, pocked by rural unrest. Last week the NRAdministrator made his first swing South. Ten cent cotton had disposed its people favorably toward the President's recovery program. At Atlanta, where he was cheered by 3,500 Georgians, the General was in top forensic form...
...would be hard to find any one today still holding the belief that the World War was the last war. Preparations for a new war. or rather for new wars, are in full swing and are carried on quite openly. ... A characteristic of such militaristic training is the advancement of medieval, pseudo-scientific theories regarding the supremacy of some peoples over others...
Obstacles. Last week, with Mr. Morgenthau in the vacant shoes of Dean Acheson, the new policy was in full swing, but it had obstacles...
...hard time. Hiring a clipping agency is expensive. Few departments enjoy the services of a paper-clipper like little Theodore Gilman Bilbo, onetime Governor of Mississippi, who last summer got a $6,000 a year job "assembling current information for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration" (TIME, July 3). In full swing last week was a Federal organization designed to correct this situation-the Division of Press Intelligence, which publishes a daily Press Intelligence Bulletin of 60 or more mimeographed pages of condensed news and editorials...
...Kansas City, General Johnson said he had telephoned President Roosevelt that not 1% of the people had any idea of opposing his program. In Convention Hall he declared: "There was so much tom-tom writing in the papers out here that I thought it well to make a swing around the circle. It was altogether unnecessary." He told the story of the New York chef who hastened out to the Midwest because "some big butter-&-egg man of those days" informed him there were "millions of bullfrogs" on his ranch. "He knew that because he heard them filling the night...