Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Independent Republican." William H. West is an inmate of the Atlantic County Mental Hospital, where he was confined several weeks ago when G-men discovered that he had been writing letters to Franklin Delano Roosevelt saying that he had brought about his nomination in 1932 by means of "thought waves," would turn his thought waves in other directions unless he was properly rewarded...
...others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation of his ideals. Among these were: the 20th Century Fund which he founded in 1919 for economic research; the International Chamber of Commerce; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (from which he completely withdrew in 1936 when he thought the Chamber had become a reactionary businessmen's club); the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt; co-operative credit associations. In 1936 his remarks at the biennial congress of the Cooperative League of the U. S., were interpreted by some listeners as a final severance with the existing profit system. Later...
...when Managing Editor Harvey Deuell of the New York News was revealed as an active participant in the discussions. The News alternately practices and impugns every bravura trick of modern tabloid journalism and would suffer greatly unless the picture strictures were eased. Other members of the newspaper committees also thought the original recommendation an "excessively drastic restriction." Accordingly the amended report would require only the approval of the trial judge...
George and Margaret, the Wilson show, was written by 27-year-old Gerald Savory while he was unemployed. Many of its lines were inspired, according to him, by retorts he thought of too late to say to bobbies, servants, uppity people. The play's long run in London and the sale of cinema rights are said to have disqualified him for the dole by some...
...chipmunks, a cottontail rabbit and observed droppings of deer and coyote all over the place. Even humans had ascended Shiva Temple, as primitive tools and ornaments attested. Eight days after the expedition began Mr. Andrews came down to admit that none of the specimens was "spectacular." Leader Anthony, however, thought he detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said, seemed to have forgotten how to bite. But among nearly 100 animal specimens collected there was not a single new species, let alone a new genus...