Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration of war: "Today our people are the objects of undeclared, but not unavowed, wars. . . . The challenge has not come from us. But since it has come, we accept...
Swindle? One headache which both Franklin Roosevelt and Chairman Altmeyer sought to save old Bob Doughton was that of worrying over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...
Said he: "It is no use to embark on discussions with a view to general settlement of differences, satisfaction of aspirations and removal of grievances unless those who come to the table are all convinced that all those who sit around it want a peaceable settlement and have no sinister idea in their minds. I say, therefore, that what we want to see is not only words which indicate a desire for peace but-before we can enter upon that final settlement -we shall want to see some concrete evidence of a willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements...
...even faintly inclined to socialist principles. They also take no stock in Mahatma Gandhi's belief that machines are wicked, that earthquakes are demonstrations of God's wrath and that the primitive Indian village life is the ideal way of living. And more significantly, they have lately come to believe that the Mahatma was far too prone to compromise with the British...
Many Britons have of late forgiven Saint Gandhi his past sins as leader of the anti-British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...