Word: viewpoints
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...nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim...
...tight on the question of Angola. No dictator is King Leopold of the Belgians. Announced his Foreign Minister Spaak: "Should the question arise, Belgium is prepared to defend the colony (Belgian Congo) with all the means within our power. From London we learn that the British viewpoint would never admit an accord detrimental to other countries...
...Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman Thomas Wilson of Wilson & Co. and, curiously, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir. And for official leadership they hit upon another new face, Colby Mitchell Chester, who had not only grown to national stature during Depression but also brought a new and needed viewpoint to the N.A.M. council table-that of consumer industries. Unlike his N.A.M. predecessor, the late Clinton Lloyd Bardo, who built million-dollar ships for a few billion-dollar customers, Colby Chester sells packaged groceries by the billions of units to millions of units to millions of U. S. housewives...
...gods. They are calmly content in their ignorance, and even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious to the ways of others as the speed of the Twenticth Century narrows the viewpoint of cosmopolitan society. If sophistication, then, is a sign of civilization, the Mexican native is far from uncivilized...
Magistrate Kross decided Spit's criss-crossed viewpoint was the result of having left the slums for a brief taste of fame. She requested Playwright Kingsley, as the man responsible for the play, to report to her chambers. Wary Playwright Kingsley pleaded pressure of work, invited Magistrate Kross to visit him at his home where "we can discuss this issue rationally, as two human beings interested in a third. . . . The only real blame I have is that the play didn't run forever. I will do my best to remedy that the next time." Magistrate Kross adjourned Spit...