Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, once an I. R. A. leader himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...
Although the words "liberal" and "democrat" are becoming more and more meaningless, they are the only adjectives that can adequately describe the character and work of Louis Brandeis. For this man throughout his career has been a fighter for the democratic ideal. Never content with a single triumph, he realized that the only safeguard of democracy was eternal vigilance. And this idea prompted his unceasing opposition to the forces of reaction, as his background so well illustrates...
...these were not jittery times, we might safely ignore windbags of the Coughlin or Heflin ilk, who have a tendency to explode of their own inflammable gaseous content -or are discarded by a weary public to the obscurity ash heap...
...Dies had to be content with an extension of one year and a promised appropriation of $100,000 (to be voted later), instead of two years and $150,000. His victory was otherwise impressive. Starting as a nobody who became head of the seriocomic Demagogs' Club in the House, Martin Dies had been built up by Franklin Roosevelt's enemies to the point where even critics of noisy Mr. Dies and friends of Mr. Roosevelt did not dare vote against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe...
...York Stock Exchange. But while that curve produced at No. 11 Wall Street is almost always eventually right as to trend, at any given moment it is frequently apt to be wrong as a "state of-business" indicator. For stock prices have always had a high emotional content, are given to excesses of excitement or complacency...