Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...military men, economists, production bosses; capital, labor-all were ready for orders. The night was drawing on; the lights were out. The U. S. was asking Franklin Roosevelt: Watchman, what of the night? Politics was dead as ever politics can be. A dying Congress frittered and fidgeted, eagerly awaiting decent burial and January's rebirth. The U. S. promised Franklin Roosevelt the moon and sixpence, if only...
...residential section which gradually became a crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins in the Graphic Sketch Club which he supported. At 14 Freda & Ida were girl wonders who insisted on sitting side by side in class, sometimes could not tell their own sketchbooks apart...
...study of the forces and the nature of the Protestant ministry and its professional training. We now have, in place of guess-work, reliable information as to these matters. Meanwhile the Conference has been drawing up a list of accredited theological schools, which have academic equipment and standards of decent graduate school level. The attempt to establish such standards has, of course, aroused resentment in those quarters where piety is cultivated at the expense of sober learning. Nevertheless, if a church is to go through the motions of giving its ministry an academic training, there is no hallway house...
...strike is a serious matter at this time of breakneck rearming. Of course a strike which ties up production of the Army's basic training planes should be settled as soon as possible. But the stumbling block in the path to adequate defense is not the union requesting a decent living wage; it is the selfish obstinacy of vested interests, guarding fat dividends and munificent executive salaries, by capitalizing upon the imperative character of the present national emergency. And the Vultee strike situation is merely symptomatic of the attitude of the interests and men who dominate the conduct...
...neither external nor internal debt. Since the death of its bloody, carnal 27-year Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez five years ago, it has also been fortunate in its leader. Like little Guatemala's Jorge Ubico tall, scholarly President Eleazar Lopez Contreras has given the nation a decent, liberal, reformist Government. His term ends next April. Constitutionally, he cannot succeed himself. His people find it hard to imagine that he would attempt to do so by any other means. Fortnight ago elections in 13 of the 20 States gave a great victory to the Bloque Bolivariano coalition which...