Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poet-Ambassador Claudel delivered the French reply at the State Department, and went scuttling out muttering: "I have nothing to say, nothing to say, nothing to say." The U. S. Ambassador in Paris had telephoned to prepare Secretary Stimson for the shock. But after he had scanned the English text, he grew alarmed, almost ran to the White House to confer with the President. They hastily summoned Ogden L. Mills, the financial brains of the Treasury, and for three and a half hours these three gentlemen solemnly pondered France's reply. Eugene Meyer Jr., astute, rich Governor...
...Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!" Scattered through the text of conservative La Liberty's appraisal of Mr. Hoover were such epithets as "parvenue insolence," "nouveau riche impertinent" and "plain bad manners...
...Prosperity was the Republican text in the 1928 campaign, so Depression is generally expected to be its theme in 1932. Therefore the President spoke on this subject as "dominant before the country today." Excerpts...
...campus mannerisms, its enthusiasm and noise, this mixed crowd was not collegiate at heart. Director Lucas, who views higher education with political alarm, had carefully picked his Young Republican delegates mostly from petty jobholders. Last April he said: "Many of our universities and colleges are literally saturated with Radicalism. Text books, classroom lectures and private conversations ... are antagonistic to the traditional policies of the Republican party. ... As it is hopeless to expect a reform ... the approach to the young man and woman must be made independent of our educational system...
...soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their ears when Teacher Scopes declared he was still using a biology text-book which explained the theory of evolution and which the State had not recalled. Chemist Rappelyea was sure the law, if taken to court, could be reduced to an absurdity, pitched into oblivion. Teacher Scopes guessed it could, too. A bargain was struck: Chemist Rappelyea would swear out a warrant...