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...enfiefed barn before the first of the month. The point they miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/17/1933 | See Source »

...Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round out the Herculean task of setting U.S. industry on its feet by mid-November. With the cotton, oil, steel and lumber codes completed and the coal and automobile codes on the threshold, the outlook was hopeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...they separated. Mr. Hoover going to the President's room to sign bills, Mr. Roosevelt to the Military Affairs Committee Room down the same hall to kill time. Louisiana's Long, spying the new President, started to sweep in upon him blatantly, changed his mind at the threshold, tiptoed away. Mr. Roosevelt was restless to get going. Ten minutes before noon he moved down the corridor toward the Senate, only to be stopped at the door, told that it was not yet time for his entrance. "All right, we'll go back and wait some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: We Must Act | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...till late in the evening and then take them all to a musical show. His own taste ran to sentimental "gypsy" music and Viennese waltzes which he would listen to with the tears running down his plump cheeks. There is reason to believe that Carload Ritchie died on the threshold of a vaster career. Born in the hamlet of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, he used to hang around the local hotel as a schoolboy, eagerly watching the smart traveling salesmen. When he became a salesman himself, it was as a commission agent for more & more old British grocery and drug houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Death Comes for the Salesman | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

During a lull in the hearings Spokesman Smith suddenly opened the glass door to get a drink outside and the crowd of female clerks at the threshold fell headlong into his arms and the board room. "Hello-hello-hello!" he repeated as he shook girl after girl by the hand. Girls flocked in from all over the building. Annoyed at the delay, pompous R. F. C. Chairman Pomerene finally banged for order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith & R. F. C. | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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