Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with our own policies and principles if we take into account the abnormal situation now existing in the world. I am sure the American people have no desire to attempt to extract any sum beyond the capacity of any debtor to pay, and it is our view that broad vision requires that our Government should recognize the situation as it exists. ... It represents our willingness to make a contribution to the early restoration of world prosperity, in which our own people have so deep an interest...
...only justification for the training curriculum is that men of intelligence will, we hope, be given an opportunity to reduce the zone of sentimentalism and emotionalism and enlarge the area of truth and vision in the understanding and treatment of criminality...
Colossal Mismanagement. Said Joy Elmer Morgan, chairman of Secretary Wilbur's radio education committee and editor of the Journal of the National Education Association: "There has not been in the entire history of the United States an example of mismanagement and lack of vision so colossal and far-reaching in its consequences as our turning of the radio channels almost exclusively into commercial hands." Since, he said, both radio and cinema portray "the trivial, the sensual, the jazzy . . . we are in vastly greater danger as a people from New Yorkism than from Communism...
...Church of the Innocent Blood "saints," "apostles" and "prophets" wailed, rubbed their drums, kissed the gaudy wounds of their Christ, fondled the feet of their Deity, groveled at their "Sea of Gethsemane," prayed with the soft-rubbed words of Louisiana Negroes for the fulfillment of their "vision": that Mother Catherine was coming back to them. Mother Catherine did not come back, and the tomb prepared for her in the temple lay unused, the health authorities refusing permission for her to lie there...
...whose blindness Jesus cured, only one tells in the Bible the sensation of his new vision. He was the blind man of Bethsaida. Jesus "spit on his eyes, and put His hands upon him, [and] asked him if he saw ought." The blind man "looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking." (Mark...