Word: view
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynical view of many a New Dealer was last week expressed by Kenneth G. Crawford, who wrote in the Nation: "Is the Roosevelt Administration neutral? Certainly not. Is there any chance of the U. S. to stay out of another world war? Practically none. Will the Rooseveit program of liberal reform go on in the event of a general war? It will not. . . . Would the outbreak of a war mean a third term for President Roosevelt? Probably...
...people (82% of whom in a Gallup poll blamed Hitler for the war). He then obeyed Congress, recognized that war prevailed, embargoed exports of arms, munitions and materials of war to belligerents in conformity with the Neutrality Act of 1937. U. S. citizens had a view of statutory Neutrality in action...
Franklin Roosevelt frankly proposed letting the U. S. be an arsenal for the Allies (at good pay) while neutrally offering Germany the materials it could try to slip past the British blockade. His dramatization of statutory neutrality's paradoxes was aimed at bringing Congress to the same view. Such standpatters as Ohio's Taft, Maine's White, Georgia's George and Iowa's Gillette (whose adverse vote defeated the Administration neutrality program last July) switched their stand on the export of arms to belligerents. From outright embargo a Senate majority shifted to cash & carry...
...code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next day the isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson's right to be heard on the radio, commented testily: "We cannot help wishing that Dorothy Thompson...
...Science and Art. Recognizing right off the bat the most lively art of the neighborhood he devoted the whole exhibition to work done on the Southern California Art Project. Under the direction of S. (for Stanton) MacDonald-Wright,* the project has concentrated on outdoor murals befitting the climate. On view were striking murals in many mediums, notably mosaic, petrachrome (dyed concrete in which are mixed little stones of varied color), and terra cotta slabs in low relief (an early Mesopotamian medium in which no serious work has been done for 2,500 years...