Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the President," which, of course, means the NRA and its various officials. If, therefore, after weeks or months of discussion a code is written and accepted by an industry and a man goes home thinking his problems are settled, he may wake up some day and find: an executive order completely changing everything agreed upon because the law says the President "may, from time to time, cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule or regulation under this...
...last week practically all hope of armament limitation had disappeared from the world. In its wake came the following developments: United States. The Senate passed (65-to-18) the House bill to build the U. S. Navy up to Treaty strength in seven years (TIME, Feb. 5). Cost: $750,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. Ships: one airplane carrier, 99,200 tons of destroyers (65), 35-530 tons of submarines (30). Aircraft: a number "commensurate with a Treaty navy." Author of the bill was Georgia's Carl Vinson. Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Washington...
...Wolsey,' argued Henry, 'You'd think the queen would feel frightened, wouldn't you? I would do her a service if I divorced her! It would save her soul! It would wake her from sin! By God's nails, Wolsey, if she were as religious as I she would 'a' seen it herself!'" Don Marquis makes the bawdy, likeable, blundering king whose amours changed the history of Europe, a human and understandable figure. And the style has the same joyous satirical fillip that made Mohitabel America's favorite gay lady...
...time that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had bought a fireless cooker in the basement of R. H. Macy & Co.'s big Manhattan department store last week, 300 wide-eyed women were swimming in her wake. Six private detectives kept them at a respectful distance as they trailed her up to the fifth floor. There they made hardly a dent in the crowd already on hand at Macy's leisure school. Purpose of this school was to show some 30.000 New Yorkers per day what to do with the spare time that was supposedly theirs under NRA codes...
...quite exquisitely phrased "Night Song" of Mr. Wade. Mr. Laughlin's two poems likewise deserve especial mention; they show a sensitive ear and nice perceptions. In the company of one of Ezra Pound's "Cautos," as they are here, they have the appearance of two demure chicks in the wake of a portentous mother hen rumaging in the gravel of modern life...