Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popularity" puffs of the press are based on equally anemic facts, it is easy to understand the discrepancy between press stories and the ever-swelling bitterness of personal remarks from the great middle class, who see themselves as the helpless football in the great game between Roosevelt versus America. We are willing to be kicked a few times for the sake of America, but not just for the sake of making a Red Grange hero out of a politician whose "most amazing accomplishment" during a year set aside for him to experiment, with the entire facilities of the country...
...half, the most important news that Editor Smith made was criticism of the Roosevelt Administration. In the first issue of the New Outlook, he called the Forgotten Man a myth (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). In May last year he urged caution about inflation. In June, he could not understand how NRA would work. In September, he criticized Postmaster General Farley's distribution of patronage. In October, the New Outlook released his open letter to the New York State Chamber of Commerce in which he said: "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars." When the letter appeared...
...character? Parents shudder at the proposition and advise their children to shun such torture. Roommates make up their minds that a black sheep has deserted the fold. And through it all the candidate alone remains serene. For him it is not torture, the others just do not understand. He delights in the scoops, he gloats over his interviews with celebrities and thrills to the click-clack of many typewriters at work...
...fact that the Hasty Pudding Club supposedly consists of the better men of Harvard, one would hardly expect them to give their annual production in Holy Week. In no week of the liturgical year is the mood so solemn as in this one. Christians recall respectfully and try to understand the supreme sufferings of Christ, and it does not seem fitting that this club, which so prides itself in its membership, should choose this particular week for its production. If there are to be standards in college, it is the duty of those who represent the upper class...
...responsibilities imposed on each side by the NRA. In most plants each side lacks experience in dealing with the other; each lacks men trained in collective bargaining. Employers are not well-acquainted with the new leaders of labor who have sprung up in various plants, do not understand the policies of labor organizations, or the reasons that lie behind them. The new leaders of labor do not understand the problems of the employer. Each side more or less fears the other and lacks confidence in the other. If is not surprising that an attempt to introduce such drastic and sudden...