Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wind to occasion recurring comment on the contingency of internal disorder here? Do the 1940 elections bear an ominous look? Are all democracies expected to go on a jag every generation or so ? Do Viewers-with-Alarm expect Federal finances to go haywire ? Failing to have his way with the Supreme Court, the Executive Department and now the Senate, is the President expected to resort to a putsch to perpetuate his policies? Are the Nazis suspected of a plan to sabotage American aid to France and England when Der Tag arrives...
Sirs: . . . Item for your Travel Department: I find that the surest way to meet the Best People on any ship or cruise is to walk around the deck the first day out with a copy of TIME conspicuously displayed about one's person. Before nightfall the above-mentioned B. P. will either be at one's feet in an effort to borrow that copy, or will be at one's throat in an effort to settle an argument born of some article in TIME...
...Hell, yes, I do. Why not?" Surest Way. To Secretary of Agriculture Wallace AAA has recently come to stand for ache, agony and anguish. In defense of AAA he has argued that present low prices are due more to bumper weather (even the Dust Bowl bloomed this year) than to any serious defect in the Act. But in spite of the most far reaching crop control laws ever enacted, all three major U. S. crops are in trouble. Wheat, with a near-record crop of 940,000,000 bushels and a whopping 300.000,000 bushel carryover in prospect for next...
...surest way for wheat farmers to get their fair share of the national income," said he, is for the Government to give the farmer the difference between his market price and what his crop would have brought in some Golden Age like that of 1909-13. Such payments are authorized in principle by AAA II whenever appropriations are made for them. Mr. Wallace boldly suggested that the best way to finance the payments would be to revive processing taxes, which the Supreme Court found illegal. "Why not use this kind of a tax once more?" he demanded. "We know...
...Dewey, born in Owosso, Mich, and schooled at the University of Michigan, intended to cultivate his voice when he migrated to Manhattan 15 years ago Instead, he worked his way through Columbia School of Law by singing in churches. At Saratoga, the ringing baritone which was to have embellished the concert stage clarioned, in tones which rivaled the radio Roosevelt, a challenge as carefully prepared as any legal brief. He expanded his character as a scourger of city lawbreakers into that of a State champion against "the biggest racket of them all ... politics for profit...