Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolutely agree with E. P. Holton. England should pay her debt to us by giving us some of her island possessions in the Western Hemisphere. I say some, because I have visited most of the islands mentioned, and I think one or two should be given back to the Devil...
...editor of the Grand Rapids, Mich. Herald dug a forefinger reflectively behind his ear, where his scholarly spectacles bit him, scratched a big house-match for his long denicotinized cigar, and turned back to his typewriter. It was November 1,1925; he was finishing his third book, The Trail of a Tradition. In it he had recorded his belief that, historically and logically, U. S. isolation from foreign affairs is not only an "unbroken highway from yesterday to now" but the "safer, surer...
Thus the wise men came back to the possibility that this fight may make either Arthur Vandenberg or Franklin Roosevelt the Mr. Big of 1940. All the soothsayers realized that the vast unpredictability of World War II might make fine hash of their predictions at any minute. But in shooting guesses from the hip, they aimed at the biggest possibilities as last week's shifting targets slid...
Poppa Loeffler pined for the old country. For years his neighbors had heard him talk about going back. There were no jobs for his two strapping boys in Watertown, Wis., and Herr Hitler's own agent in Milwaukee had told him about the glorious opportunities in the new Nazi Fatherland. One fine day last spring, with 150 other Wisconsin families, the Loefflers picked up and went. The Fatherland paid all the passage money, every pfennig...
Favorite choice of Freshmen as an occupation this year was the medical profession, with law and education trailing in its wake. Below these three in ranking of popularity came business. Back in the buoyant and optimistic twenties a class that made such a choice would have been branded as down-right heretical by rugged individualistic, Coolidge-loving fathers. But America has changed since then...