Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Effect of Franklin Roosevelt's nocturnal note was to add to the incredible amount of confusion already caused by the combination of an innocuous, 40-year-old plan to make the Government more efficient with a Presidential personality capable of such gestures. When the House began its own rowdy debate on Reorganization, Administration leaders found it advisable to accept the opposition amendment reposing ultimate authority for Presidential shifts in a Congressional majority. On this basis the bill seemed sure of passage, and riding back to Washington, tanned and rested after his busy week, Franklin Roosevelt felt reasonably convinced that...
...well did Mr. Hamilton know that, far from having to face defeat this autumn, the Republican Party is almost statistically certain to add to its offices. No Presidency is at stake on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of this
Each year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selects a few Americans considered likely to add to the "scholarly and artistic power" of the U. S., pays their living expenses so they may work at what pleases them. This week the Foundation granted $135,000 to 58 men & women chosen from 1,000 applicants. Some of the 1938 Guggenheim fellows...
...Prague the utmost consternation reigned in Cabinet circles. Dr. Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," was quite able to add up the Stalin blood purge, the Chamberlain tribulations, the Blum uncertainties and the collapse of Austria. Smart, quick, the President rushed into effect measures he hoped would insure peace between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The 3,200,000 Czechoslovaks who are radically German and whose principal leader is blatant Nazi Konrad Henlein-involved only a few months ago in a homosexual scandal -are to be given by a bill announced by the Cabinet last week the right to fill...
...schools have an activities program. Thus its schoolchildren build boats or Indian tepees, and in so doing learn incidentally to read & write, learn something about history, science, art. When Roslyn's boys make nut bread, Superintendent Wegner explained, they not only enjoy a creative activity but learn to add, subtract & multiply...