Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long love dies slowly; and I would not admit, even to myself, that the "wrong" was entirely with TIME. I thought something had happened to me. It was as if a trusted yardstick appeared to shrink. So, I've checked myself by other reading. In the midst of TIME I pick up something else-anything else. A former impossibility has become a habit...
TIME, never more full of good blood, shudders at the thought of death. Do other readers agree that since late 1936, boredom has crept in? If so, please give counsel...
George Norris thought one small, carefully-selected, well-paid body, its members few enough to feel individually responsible, would offer smaller chance for buck-passing and lobbying than the old Senate & House. Too wise last week to be disillusioned so soon, he had reason to be disappointed. Last January he asked only one favor of the new Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes...
...convicted in the Moscow trials. . . . If Trotsky is guilty no condemnation can be too severe, and if he is innocent there is no way in which the existing regime in Soviet Russia can be acquitted of deliberate, systematic persecution and falsification. I might inquire if he [Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky] thought our hearings were a put-up job, why such pressure was brought to bear upon members of the defense committee and of the commission of inquiry to induce them to resign...
...Germany last year, Herr Brüning will next term be a full-fledged faculty member. As such he will give a course on international economic policies, tutor a few advanced students, draw a full professor's pay ($8,000 to $12,000) presumably for life. Harvardmen thought he might be the first notable acquisition for the $2,000,000 Littauer School of Public Administration which President James Bryant Conant hopes to launch next year...