Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that light I disagree with those in public life who denounce compulsory military training and I might add that in its advocation I fail to see evidence of full intellectual retreat. As a young man who will have to fight, I want...
Work Done seemed to add up to mighty small potatoes. Of $5,400,000,000 which Congress had voted for Defense since May, a piddling fraction had actually been spent. An enormous job of planning had to be done first. In charge of the planning were Industrialists William S. Knudsen, Edward Stettinius Jr., some 200 high-powered colleagues on the President's National Defense Advisory Commission. Getting these talented bigwigs down to coordinated work was in itself a big, time-taking job. Up to last fortnight, most commission spark plugs always had time for an easy hour...
...Present enrollment: 200,000. Proposed by Sidney Hillman: to add 160,000 to CCC and 300,000 to NYA, train them to run and repair tractors, build roads and bridges...
...these imports, the Westrick proposal is equally simple: the U. S. will give her the money-by continuing to pay $35 an ounce for Gold. Germany now claims to have something like $2,000,000,000 in gold. If she shipped that here, she would add to our surplus, embarrass us. Instead, she will help us put gold back into circulation by putting her $2,000,000,000 fund into a new European-American ("Schachtian") Bank of Intercontinental Settlements. Protected by this margin, the U. S. can then lend Germany, says Westrick, about $5,000,000,000 in gold. This...
When Jack Kapp was recording master for Brunswick, he used to roam the South looking for new hillbilly quartets, jug bands, spiritual singers, colored jazz outfits and blues shouters to add to Brunswick's list. Jack Kapp not only has big, useful ears, but kind eyes and a soft heart. When he returned to Chicago with his recordings, so depressed would he feel about the underprivileged folk among whom he traveled that it would take two or three nights listening to the Civic Opera before he felt right again. For Mr. Kapp understood Beethoven as well as 3-woogie...