Word: thinke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truly think that nothing has been accomplished in the way of appeasement. But we must keep trying for peace or we shall have only two alternatives-and both are very bad: first, economic chaos and second...
...What do I think ot the latest Nazi outbreak? I think it's terrible, the most terrible thing I ever heard of! And I'll probably lose my job for saying that. But it stands. You might also say that I am only sharing the sentiments of our President. Oh, how I would like to say a lot more! . . . Meet me on the day that I resign...
...newspapers would think it worth-while to run contests among a population group in which only 2% regularly read the papers, but the Commercial Appeal ("Largest Circulation in the South"-now around 126,000) is not out for immediate gains. Its late, revered Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, who died in 1926, never tired of preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also...
...went Adolf Hitler's financial magician, clammy-handed, high-colored Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. President of the Reichsbank. Dr. Schacht is the only German bigwig who is persona grata in British financial circles for, despite the way he has kicked around the laws of economics, British bankers like to think that he has done so under political compulsion, that fundamentally he is a sound financier who may eventually lead Germany back to respectable financial methods: His host last week was his old friend, hoary-bearded Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead men, whose heroism he tries to embalm in lifelike verses. Sample (on Andrew...