Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week Mr. May attended a dinner celebrating his silver jubilee as senior partner of the potent accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. In Washington last week Mr. May, who was a Wartime adviser at the Treasury Department, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee as a disinterested citizen, presented the best-reasoned and most effective attack yet made on the Revenue Bill...
...Landon has shrewdly avoided offering specific answers to national problems. His rare speeches to date have been to the effect that it would be nice to attain many New Deal goals without New Deal spending and experiment. "No reasonable citizen should ask us what to do," cried he in his second broadside at the New Deal last winter. "The American people propose to solve their problems under the American system...
...Since the Catholic Church claims only 20,500,000 of the U. S.'s 127,785,000 inhabitants as members, and since Protestant attendance is estimated at less than 14,000,000, indication is that only one citizen in four is a church-goer...
...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...
...made luminous appearances, megaphones whispered remarks from dead-&-gone characters on "the other side.'' Investigator Garland was impressed but noticed some incongruities. "I confess that it was a bit surprising to find Socrates and Julius Caesar writing messages in commonplace English for the benefit of an elderly citizen of Washington." It was hardly less surprising to hear Roosevelt I admitting that 1912 was "great times but these are greater. I stand, behind my cousin...