Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission. The Senate confirmed him last week as Under Secretary of the Treasury, the job given him last fall by Secretary Morgenthau. With Mr. Morgenthau resting in Florida, John Hanes became, after less than a year of Government service, the Treasury's acting head. Mr. Morgenthau was well content, for as two men of property, probity and conservative tastes, he and John Hanes understand each other well. They agree, for instance, that if the Budget is not balanced some day soon, the country will surely go to hell...
Once a shy, retiring sport, deep-sea angling has become one of the most glamorous, gregarious sports in the U. S. Once content to catch a big fish and talk about it forevermore, today a deep-sea angler wants to keep on catching a bigger fish than his neighbor, yearns to break a record -or at least see his picture in the papers alongside the monster he has conquered...
...President," said the Christian Century, "there apparently seemed left only one appeal with sufficient emotional content, sufficient power to paralyze men's rational processes, to carry his program for limitless armament spending through Congress.*. . . Every Christian voice should immediately and in unmistakable terms let Congress and the President know that this attempt to drag religion through the hell of a new holy war is resented and repudiated by the churches. . . . This [is] revelation of his utter lack of comprehension of the mind of at least the Protestant churches...
...Saltonstalls," Mr. Shipton concludes, "have never sought great wealth. . . . Content with a comfortable fortune, they saw no virtue in leisure, but labored at the tasks they chose...
Propaganda Men. The propaganda content in this tonnage of Government publicity usually runs at the proportion of less than one gram per pound. Occasionally it assays much higher. Last February the Bituminous Coal Commission issued one famous release in which a Cleveland city official was described as "coloring deeply" when replying to a Commissioner's question at a hearing. Washington correspondents stirred up such a row that the author of the release was fired...