Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it. He buckled doggedly down to work with pencil, paper, Secretary Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Deputy Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. This week he sent a special message to Congress asking for $1,500,000,000 to carry next year's relief burden, and acknowledging that his midwinter estimates of fiscal position would no longer hold up because income taxes and other revenue had fallen $604,000,000 under expectations. He now foresaw a deficit on June...
...Government was the Healy portrait of Lincoln, which showed him, nearly lifesize, seated with legs crossed, one finger along his cheek, the other hand clutching the chair arm. Robert Todd Lincoln, who became Secretary of War, Minister to the Court of St. James and president of Pullman Co., thought this the best likeness of his father ever painted. In her will, Mrs. Lincoln provided that the picture should remain in possession of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Lincoln Isham, during her life, then go to the Government, "provided it be given an appropriate place in the White House in Washington...
...from the point of view of the athletes who participate in the various sports in the college the distinction between major and minor seems to mean very little. A soccer player, for instance, takes his training as seriously, is just as worked up over the thought of getting into the Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success...
...here the Lincoln Memorial. A great age that was with unprecendented material progress, physical and medical research. But it got them: their material power gave them a confidence and a hollow sophistication which is always the death warrant of moral progress. It is the same old story: people thought they saw through everything and consequently saw nothing. But come, come, how many will take the ride to Mars...
...swimming, not only at Harvard but all over the country, has swum into the ken of hundreds and thousands of people who twenty and even ten years ago would never have thought of going near the water. Ever since the War, and especially during the last decade, the public eye has been opening wider to the opportunities which the water has to offer, both in the way of vacation amusement and in the line of strenuous and healthy exercise all the year round. Great municipal beaches have developed near the centers of population on both seaboards to take care...