Word: either
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...another handful, the men of convictions, oppose them; and there are always the followers of both camps, the people who make revolution a more inspiring, more honest thing than war. And there are always, too, soldiers of fortune who seek only excitement, who, regardless of issues, fight for either side, and who shift their loyalty with easy convenience. Human strife carries with it many sordid trappings, but none so despicable as the blatant soldier of fortune...
...truth of the occurrences on every evening of the convention has been hidden by politician and press alike. The fact remains that the newspaper reports written at the time of the convention differ widely from the soft-pedaled versions which denied the same facts afterwards. And no newspaper had either the courage or freedom enough to speak the truth editorially...
...still have a burden of unemployment. Although it is far less than one-half in proportion to our workers than in either England or Germany . . . our greatest economic problem [is] stability in employment...
...alternative is simple - either the end of all things or improvement. But since neither world economy nor humanity can die, improvement must occur. But let no one be too precipitate. The passage from the present state to one of compara tive prosperity is a cycle which will require at least three years...
...opening last week Mrs. Harriman gravely explained to reporters that she had been collecting French moderns for years, that her house had become so crowded that she must either stop buying pictures or rent more rooms to hang them. Hence the Marie Harriman Gallery. Art critics, dodging nervously among socialites, were impressed. Of the 29 canvases on view, not one was unimportant. Present were such frequently reproduced works as Picasso's mustachioed Harlequin, a good Tahiti Gauguin, Renoir's Claude as a Clown in Red, Cezanne's Man with a Pipe, eight irreproachable Derains. Another beauteous young...