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...Aims. Taking note of widespread talk about a business recession, the President spoke sternly of the "self-appointed peddlers of gloom and doom." Assuring the people that his Administration is deeply concerned with "the realities of living," he said: "Groundwork . . . has been laid by this Administration in the strong belief that the Federal Government should be prepared at all times-ready, at a moment's notice, to use every proper means 'to sustain the basic prosperity of our people...
...groundwork for the new proposed league has been completed by the coaches and athletic director of the eight schools. A tentative plan shaped by this group will be presented for consideration at the presidents' meeting...
...Plan machinery, the Administration ignored all specific legislation that grew out of the Herter Committee's findings. Even so, the committee reports "rubbed Congress' nose in the realities of postwar Europe," as one of Herter's fellow Congressmen put it. "Without the Herter Committee's groundwork, the program of foreign aid would never have been passed...
Dada was not all meaningless. It developed bold new techniques of poster art, laid some obvious groundwork for surrealism. But inevitably the movement was a victim of its own excesses. During the middle '20s, Dada suddenly died out and surrealism took its place...
...church in Germany has caught some of Dibelius' iron spirit. If there is not yet a full-scale religious revival, the groundwork is being laid for one. "Evangelical academies" for acquainting clergy and laymen with each other's problems have sprung up in most of the German provincial churches. Following Dibelius' advice of long ago, Protestants are making a strong effort to bring religion to German workers. Using an idea borrowed from the "worker priests" of Catholic France, pastors now spend some time in fields and factories, trying to come to grips with their people...