Word: wands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls, however gallant, do not ride in the Grand National at Aintree. Each of these unlikely happenings occurs in Author Bagnold's "National Velvet," but so compelling is the wave of her magic wand that the surliest realist will nod and grin approval. Nor should hippophobes shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy. Humorous, charming, "National Velvet" is a little masterpiece of English sentiment. Velvet was 14, going on 15, and looked "like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three...
...shaken by the hand of politics or business, which should stand even if the economic sky should fall. What they did not foresee was that, after the economic sky had fallen, a new generation of New Dealers would want not a pillar of stone but a handy wand with which to reconstruct the sky. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau...
...generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most of the Valley's 2,000,000 souls gape in awe at the everlengthening procession of TVA wonders. Some are very angry indeed but no one is bored. TVA's magic wand waves too fast for the eyes of the rest of the U. S. to follow, one group excepted. Last week this group&151;the U. S. powermen&151; spotted the end of a first big chapter in the New Deal's greatest paternalistic experiment...
Last Spring President Roosevelt waved his magic wand over the Tennessee Valley and decreed that more electricity should be made than could be used. Last week the wand waved again and the President decreed that all the residents of the Tennessee Valley should have electrical gadgets to burn up the excess current. By executive order, he created the Electric Home & Farm Authority to provide cheap credit in the realm of the TVA for the sale of electric stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, irons, toasters, sewing machines, waffle irons, etc. Appliance makers have agreed to furnish a standard low price line which...
Gradually, however, as commodity prices failed to respond to the New Deal's magic wand, the President's monetary policy veered away from "hard money" toward depreciation of the dollar. That fitted better with Mr. Morgenthau's ideas. The elder Morgenthau, who made his millions in Bronx real estate, could probably afford to face inflation without undue anxiety, but Son Henry has long been known as more or less economically heterodox by training. Last week when the President made Henry Morgenthau Jr. not only Undersecretary but at the same time acting Secretary of the Treasury...