Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Josef Stefani, organizer and representative for this district thought the University "a wonderful institution, if only they practiced what they preached." He showed that the wage increase had been accepted by the workers but would have no legal standing with the organization until they were given exclusive bargaining rights...
When the first answer came, accepting, he thought "one in a million," but when all six came accepting, that was too true to be good. He wrote down to each one saying that plans had been changed, too bad, etc., and received in return a well typed letter signed by all six saying that they understood perfectly...
Scion of an ancient Venetian family, suave, blond Count Cippico is a close friend of Arthur Davis, chairman of the board of Aluminum Co. of America. Both men are heavy smokers and some three years ago they got to discussing some means of eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This...
...flown, affectionate, freethinking notes to a young Protestant, young Jacques flees to Marseille with his easy-going friend Daniel, paces the streets and broods about right and wrong while Daniel is befriended by a warm-hearted girl who solves some moral problems for him without a moment's thought...
...Fascism and Communism, heed those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (except in its "extravagant asceticism .. . brutally cynical forms of realpolitik"). Most modern morality and social philosophy will have to go. In their place, men shall substitute such proverbs as: "All that we are ... is the result of what we have thought. . . . Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. . . . War and violence are the prime causes of war and violence. . . . The more violence, the less revolution. . . . Non-violence presents the only hope of salvation...