Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis H. Kraskin of Washington, D. C. reminded his colleagues that in some cases apparent disturbances of eyesight may be symptoms of hysteria. He mentioned a girl of 17 who complained of blurred vision, feared she was going blind. Examination showed that her eyes were excellent. It turned out that she was nursing a deep hatred for a man who visited her mother, that "the very sight of him" annoyed her so much as to produce an hysterical simulacrum of failing eyesight...
...believe that I express the opinion of many of those active in the world of sports when I say that President Roosevelt has established a claim to our support. Now that his splendid courage and remarkable vision have started the country well on its way to better times, these men and women will be only too eager to get out and work for his election. Baseball, tennis, racing, boxing and all other sports are again drawing record crowds and Roosevelt is the answer." Thus last week did onetime fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, who thinks it is funny to burn...
...candidates who trounced Senator Gore last week had outdone themselves in promising handouts from the public funds. The vision of $200 per month for every oldster helped the Townsendite candidate, Corner Smith, vice president of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Inc., to finish a strong third. As No. 2, Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland won the right to enter a runoff primary July 28 by singing the praises of Franklin Roosevelt, pointing to his own State's social security amendment. Even so, he ran well behind winning Representative Josh Lee, 44, whose New Deal-plus platform included "a farm for every...
...local shopkeepers a little co-operative store was opened with a stock of flour, butter, sugar and oatmeal. The society's ?28 capital had been put in by its 28 members, most of whom were weavers. What these cooperators lacked in capital was more than made up in vision, for within twelve years their society was doing a $100,000 annual business, and the so-called Rochdale system is still standard for all true cooperatives. That system...
Geneva observers, although mildly amazed, stirred with hope that from so paradoxical a situation something might come at last out of the late great Nobel Peaceman Aristide Briand's greatest vision: The United States of Europe (TIME, Sept...