Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cartoonist Richard Q. Yardley of the Baltimore Sun pictured Franklin Roosevelt as an Edgar Bergen with a whole lapful of Charlie McCarthy Senators all shouting "Yes!" and "Lil Davey" Lewis (Representative David Lewis, backed by the White House against Senator Tydings) climbing up to join them...
Hopeh Province twinkled with guerrillas. In Shantung Province, where about 160,000 guerrillas and remnants of the Chinese regulars operate, the map showed a whole constellation. Most harried Japanese-occupied province of all was Shansi, where 40 divisions of Chinese troops, mostly Communist, totaling 240,000 made life difficult for the Japanese soldier. No part of the occupied area was without its star clusters...
...happy to-do over cooperatives. At Antigonish's small Roman Catholic St. Francis Xavier University were 1,000 people-among them 250 clergymen and educators from the U. S.-to attend a Rural and Industrial Conference, to behold how the 100% Christian economics of cooperatives had put the whole region on its feet...
Because they saw in their assignment an opportunity to study the whole question of business and its relationships to government, two members of the Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee-Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold and SECommissioner Jerome Frank-asked Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. to suggest a program for the investigators. To nervous, cocky Adolf Berle (rhymes with surly), this assignment was what a murder trial is to a cub reporter. Early in July Mr. Berle completed his "Memorandum of Suggestions." It was not quite the sort of thing New Dealers hand out to the press, but last...
...course of my life," Celine once confessed, "I spent so many years as a bard, a hero, an official, and a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum." Readers of Journey to the End of the Night, which at 40 turned Celine (real name: Louis Des-touches) from an obscure municipal doctor to the most sensational of contemporary writers, may have thought that savage autobiographical novel was enough to fill a whole insane asylum by itself. But the Journey had left untold the story of Celine...