Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the good old days when there were flights of 150,000,000 ducks instead of 65,000,000, when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45 days, and there was no such thing as daily bag limits (this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before 7 a.m. or after 4 p.m.; no more than three shells in a gun; no live decoys; no baiting in duck-shooting areas...
Last week Nazi efficiency, aping U. S. individualism, had established not one but ten newspapers for German soldiers fighting World War II. Some were published at the front, others in Berlin and Breslau for front-line distribution. All were strictly edited by agents of the Ministry for Propaganda; they gave news of the war but featured drawings and articles by soldiers, concentrated on entertainment...
...opponents Frye and Kratz went hangar-flying over drinks in a nearby bar, became fast friends. A few weeks ago they met again on a New Mexico dude ranch at a meeting of Conquistadores del Cielo (Conquerors of the Sky), an airline executives' organization for making hoopla in ten-gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal was made. The sale was for cash, in which Marquette's chief financial backer, Pittsburgh Capitalist John...
...Memoriam-the Profit Motive," read a black-bordered box on the cover. "Honorary pallbearers will be men prominent in the textile industry." Inside the pamphlet the textile industry read the summary of its sins-a loss of $98,094,000 for the ten years ending with 1935. Said he, ironically: "Perhaps if we defend our privileges and rights (to sell for less than cost) we may be able to lose even more in the period from...
During the past ten years men of good will, trying to escape the Left-Right dilemma, have been bravely challenging defeat, whooping up democracy, deploring dictatorship, condemning war, and agreeing that not much can be done about it all. To reflective witnesses, however, even the best "liberal" thinking has seemed about as far behind the times as Montesquieu's and Jefferson's was ahead of theirs. Parkes's book catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays...