Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned to his transcript and read the President's words: "Their decisions were more on legislative lines than judicial." Enlightened, the newshawks rushed off truthfully to tell the world that Franklin Roosevelt had spoken without acrimony, that in spite of the defeat of his bill he appeared well content...
Many a politician in Washington, including some of Franklin Roosevelt's loyal friends, privately expressed themselves as more than content at his defeat. It would, they thought, make him examine his plans more carefully, lay out his legislative programs with more caution and most important, might prevent him from deciding lightly to run for a third term-a move which, successful or not, could hardly fail to cause a furor as perilous as that over the Court Bill. ¶ Much water has flowed under Brooklyn Bridge since that day five years ago when James J. Walker threw...
...Families, the Premier-Prince sought to unify the Empire, end party strife. "If I can make old enemies bury the hatchet and become friends," he said, "If I can weld the whole nation into one peaceful family with the Emperor as the father of the household, I shall be content...
...knowledge of Freemasonry and Civil War military history. Junketing in Europe last week, Roving Professor Pound in September will welcome as his successor in the job he has held for 21 years his onetime student, SECommissioner James McCauley Landis, roam Harvard to his mind's content...
Nine years ago Kenneth Roberts was known to Saturday Evening Post readers as a crack correspondent, a downright, factual, lively reporter of events in the U. S., Europe, the Orient. But Kenneth Roberts was not content to be one of the best U. S. journalists. For years he had had an Idea, which crystallized into an Ambition. The Idea: that historians are mainly knaves or fools, have falsified the facts. The Ambition: to become America's best historical novelist. For years he had been "mousing around for something to write that would have my own sort of people...