Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a true parallel between the forces and the storms of Nature and the forces and storms in the minds of men. The beneficent forces in Nature that build rich soil along river banks through growth of trees and plants are opposed by the devastating floods that wash away the banks and inundate the cities because of storms over wide areas on the plains above...
...thoughts of men there are the beneficent forces of kindness and regard for the rights of others that build up our ways of life along lines of personal freedom, with the right to a trial by jury when we are accused of crime, the right to print what we want to say in our papers and preach what we want to preach in our pulpits and over our radios, and to listen to the same and form our opinions. These forces of kindness and personal freedom are opposed by thoughts of power over individuals under such slogans as that...
...President and his wife as well as for other folks. To women reporters curious over the fact that Mrs. Roosevelt's newspaper column, My Day, has a way of beating the President to the punch, this toasty retort was explanation enough. To others concerned over her increasing truculence along the Neutrality Front and its influence on U. S. women hell-bent for peace, it explained more fully why Eleanor Roosevelt, who four years ago said, "The war idea is obsolete," had last fortnight written, "Are we going to think only of our skins and our own pockets...
...though dissension in the War Department were not enough, Washington recently was treated to one of the strangest episodes in New Deal Fantasia. The President's undercover men (Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen) began to shoot at Louis Johnson who all along had been trustfully waiting for the President to make peace by giving him Harry Woodring's place...
...hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations with Business. What made it a crumb under the President's collar last week was the great debate on Neutrality in Congress...