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...study is aimed at both the child and the mother. An assistant will usher the child into an observatory room equipped with doll house and tape recorder. The child will be encouraged to tell a story about the house. Research experts will then analyze the significance of the story with regard to the child's personality. In addition, trained interviewers will question the mother about her relationship with the child...
...haunted by the notion of a Golden Age. We who were born about 1900 remember that span of security. We who lived through the late '20s and early '30s, the liberal movements, were filled with a notion that if we strained and strained and strained we would pretty soon usher in a Utopia. These young have not that impatience. They have not that regret. It is not a matter of disillusion nor does it mean that they are indifferent to social betterment...
...haunted by the notion of a Golden Age. We who were born about 1900 remember that span of security. We who lived through the late '20s and early '30s, the liberal movements, were filled with a notion that if we strained and strained and strained we would pretty soon usher in a Utopia. These young have not that impatience. They have not that regret. It is not a matter of disillusion nor does it mean that they are indifferent to social betterment...
Congressman Burdick's contention was that farmer, factory worker, industrialist, consumer, are all in the same boat; inflation may wreck all of them. Hence, he was going to vote for the Administration's bill. Usher Burdick shouted at his colleagues: "What are you trying to do?" He shook his head, bellowed a parting shot: "Well, I will be damned if I know," and marched back to his seat...
...Work with Handcuffs. The House giggled and guffawed appreciatively for two full minutes. Then, with hundreds of little shears flashing, it went back to pruning away the Government controls in the Defense Production Act. Whatever Usher Burdick thought about it, the House preferred to take a chance on inflation (which few members regard as a real danger) rather than let the Administration attach itself to any more of the U.S. economy. All last week the House worked, leaving the Administration a few snippets, but cutting out the things which Harry Truman said he needed most...