Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call his congressmen in and say: "Boys, we've spent several billions trying to help the poor and downtrodden get on top where the big fellows are (or used to be) but it don't seem to be getting us any place. What do you think about turning this relief business around by voting a few billions and turn it over to business and industry (such as is left) and say: Here she is, boys; get busy and see what kind of job you can do making rugged individualists of yourself. Get real rugged! All New Deal rules...
Agents. If all Chairman Dies's evidence should turn out to be true, U. S. democracy is riddled from top to bottom with anti-democratic elements. If true only in part, it presents a situation at least as ugly as that ventilated by Senator La Follette's expose of violations of civil liberties...
...well worth while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
With a blanket Federal regulation limiting the total enrollment of flight training courses in colleges throughout the country to 50 men, Harvard has been forced to turn away most of the 135 who are eligible for the instruction...
...clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become the apple of the census-taker...