Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly pressed with a desire to cooperate with the Administration, to help head off wild spending by Congress, to give a semblance of recovery. The President's advisers, both those who believe in giving business a chance and those who believe that the Government should run far ahead of business, went down to Warm Springs to help make the Administration's big relief plan. And the President sat ex officio in the conference, for he would toss their well-laid plans either 1) to Congress for adoption, or 2) to the wastebasket for oblivion...
Faced with this minor mystery, sympathetic friends concluded that ''Jimmy'' must have been elated that afternoon to the point of turning back the register and inserting himself ahead of the King-Emperor...
London U.S. warned Japan that if she abrogates the Washington Treaty a free-for-all naval building race will follow and America can and will keep far ahead of Japan in sea strength...
...other feature is "Happiness Ahead," or Dick Powell again and always the same. He has a new she as a rapt listener to his crooning, Josephine Hutchinson. While hardly beautiful, she gives promise of future fame as something more than a foil to crooners. McHugh and Jenkins again, and those two catchy tunes "Pop Goes Your Heart" and "happiness Ahead...
...Press suggested that the husky, thick-set host needed money to finish a hydro-electric project, that a mysterious Southwest power deal was afoot, that the utility men were trying to draft Mr. Couch for active command of the Edison Electric Institute during dark political months ahead. It was even hinted that the whole thing smacked of an unholy alliance of Power, Politics, Education and the Courts...