Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coroners of history may sometime look back upon these days as civilization's great crisis. In every way an apostate world challenges principles which past generations have long thought secure. Law and order and good old army discipline have just been vanquished in Oregon's primaries, and the Princeton campus gave Earl Browder a warm greeting. But yet a further branch has been made in the dikes which true liberals has been made in the dikes which turn liberals have builded against the raging torrents of the New Deal. The Herald Tribune wavers...
...press conference question about his current $5,000,000,000 pump-priming campaign, the President replied with a definition of the aims of his antimonopoly message. To another, as to what he thought of the brawling primary campaign that was drawing to a close in Pennsylvania, he replied by advising his caller to read Dante's Inferno...
...Ward got his business start in Leavenworth where, serving a term for narcotic law violations, he fell in with President Herbert Huse Bigelow of Minneapolis' rich Brown & Bigelow (advertising specialties), who was serving a term for income tax evasion. When Mr. Ward was released, Mr. Bigelow, who thought him "good clay worthy of molding," gave him a letter to Brown & Bigelow that got him a job shoveling manure on one of the company farms. By the time Mr. Bigelow was released, Mr. Ward had worked up in the company so far that Mr. Bigelow, mightily pleased, eventually made...
...dreary and deathly civil war last week as Barcelona, the Leftist Capital in which the Rightists claim there are "180 purely military objectives," suffered four big raids within 33 hours. Casualties announced: 200 dead and wounded. Since the original heavy bombing of Barcelona (at which time many observers thought the modern "Douhet Theory" of demoralizing, unrestricted air warfare was being applied for the first time) Rightist Air Force Commander General Alfredo Kindelan has written an article entitled Clipped Wings. In this, General Kindelan boldly grumbled against his superior Generalissimo Francisco Franco, declared that had the Rightist Air Force only been...
...taken over by TIME, thus ceasing to exist as a separate publication. First issue of the Literary Digest appeared on March 1, 1890. Its publishers, Isaac Kauffman Funk & Adam Willis Wagnalls, classmates at Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio) and ordained Lutheran ministers, conceived the magazine as "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world.'' In 1905 this formula was extended to include newspaper comment on the news...