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There is no more esteemed confection in the Executive Department of the Government than the word economy. It rolls with a quiver of delight on the tongue of the President. It rolls and rolls again on the tongue of the Director of the Budget. The Cabinet munch it at their meetings. Only last week, Secretary Hoover offered the dainty morsel again for the President's tasting in the annual report of the Department of Commerce...
...must to all men," (TIME, Nov. 10, Page 24, Col. 2 and Nov. 17, Page 4, Col. 2) or to your readers in any event, comes the irresistible impulse to tell you of my delight with TIME...
There is a foreword to this excellent list. It has a quotation from Emerson, "In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." There is a quotation from Charles Kingsley that books open their hearts to us as brothers. The foreword is an honest and genial invitation to buy books. But there imbedded in its midst is that, wayward word "catalog." No U, no E. just og. On the outside of the list, the same atrocity occurs. No U, no E. just...
...catch to the throat as the national emblem is raised on its staff and the national anthem played in honor of an American victory, so long as there is the feeling that possessed one member of the team when he rushed up to me in a frenzy of delight at having snapped a photo of three American flags fluttering from the three winning poles-just so long will the loser feel proportionately disgruntled. After a day of it, too, the performance becomes not only disagreeable, but a nuisance. One American who spent a good deal of his time...
...impatient liberals who delight to contrast the collectivistic zeal of British labor with the very cautious program of the American Federation of Labor will find more material for despair in the work of the annual convention just closing in El Paso. Resolutions against the extension of government activity in business, refusal to join any political party, opposition to Russian recognition--the readoption of these safe-and-sane truisms is enough to make the union leaders life members of the chamber of commerce. Obviously, the American Federation is not radical...