Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that the committee would render a disservice to the Nation if it left the impression in its report that there is anything in the present situation to cause anyone to lose faith in the American people as a whole or their devotion to their basic institution...
...believe that the committee would render a disservice to the Nation if it left the impression in its report that there is anything in the present situation to cause anyone to lose faith in the American people as a whole or their devotion to their basic institution...
Since July 1938, when eastern U. S. railroads wangled from ICC an increase from 2? to 2½? a mile for basic (coach) passenger fares, the weatherbeaten nose of Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio has been out of joint. During his 60 years in railroading and 30 years as president of B. & O., Dan Willard has been a competitive spirit, and when he fought the increase (which was forced on B. & O.) he protested loudly that it was playing squarely into the hands of the bus lines...
...stimulated by foreign recognition of their musical possibilities, Spaniards, began to apply themselves with greater success to serious composition. By combining characteristics of their national folk song with a basic European idiom the modern Spanish school has developed a brilliant style full of highly decorated melodies and dancelike rhythms. . . Selections from Iberia by Albeniz are the only familiar pieces from the modern group, which includes works by Rodriguo, and Rodolpho and Ernesto Halffter...
Died. Arsene Paulin Pujo, 78, tall, stately, renowned chairman of the trust-busting Pujo Congressional committee of 1911-13; of pneumonia, in Lake Charles, La. The Pujo committee was the first to third-degree J. P. Morgan Sr. and his "inner circle" of finance control; it was basic for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange...