Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect of this bracketing of shots was to make Congress responsible not only for national defense and for Relief in its name, but for the welfare of reliefers after mid-February, when present appropriations will be gone, with about five winter weeks still to come...
...harbored: expenditures cannot be reduced for reasons both political and social; the U. S. economic system is going to support a larger and larger debt; the U. S. budget is not likely to be balanced by the New Deal or by a successor administration for a long time to come. Corollary of this (not of course believed by the President) is that the U. S. debt will never be paid off, and that until some drastic event-such as wild inflation-changes public opinion, the U. S. will not again attempt to live within its means...
Most crucial test of the Chamberlain policy will come this week when the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax go to Rome. They will stop over for a two-hour tea in Paris, where French Premier Edouard Daladier is expected to warn Mr. Chamberlain not to start appeasing Dictator Benito Mussolini with French territory. Mr. Chamberlain's dilemma at Rome will be that he cannot get concessions from Italy (such as less co-operation with Germany, no more menacing gestures toward France) without giving away something, and he cannot give away much without arousing opposition at home...
Hicks, speaking before the Wellesley Forum in Severance Hall, stated his belief in the eventual triumph of Socialism. It will not come about in the immediate future, he admitted, but the serious possibility is that we may get Fascism...
...cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...