Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posted up on the White House doors last week. Once more in his own office. President Roosevelt took his recovery program in hand in an attempt to break the jam on steel, oil. lumber and coal codes. He was told that the NRA campaign was going into its most crucial phase. To him were made confidential reports of the precarious labor situation in the coal fields growing out of last week's bituminous code hearing (see p. 9). Though the Pennsylvania mines were again manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive. If the final coal code...
...lost his matches to Perry and Austin, Borotra and Brugnon would have to win the doubles, Cochet would have to win both his singles matches. Most observers conceded the doubles to France, thought Cochet had a better than even chance against Austin. The draw caused the remaining match-the crucial one between Cochet and Eng land's debonair, black-haired Frederick Perry-to be played on the first day of the series, just before Austin disposed of Merlin...
...days of the McLean regime, but Publisher Meyer refused to lie down. In Washing ton his lawyers got an order restraining the Herald from printing the features. A court dissolved it. In Manhattan other Post lawyers tried to enjoin the Tribune Co. from selling to the Herald. On the crucial day, Washington newsreaders were treated to an extraordinary sight. The Gumps, Winkles, Tracy, et al. appeared in the Herald, and also in the Post. Everyone knew that one of the dailies would have to drop them, but none could predict which...
...believe, will deny that the past few months have seen a crucial test of our Government. Not only has the metal of President Roosevelt as a Chief Executive been sorely tried but the test has gone to the very heart of our form of Government. As day by day saw our economic conditions falling lower into the depths with the untold suffering in its wake, ideas of Government alien to the principles of democracy stalked in the dark overhanging clouds and turned greedy eyes towards the Capitol and the White House...
...front cover*) Statesmen of every color, babbling every language and brimming with every economic creed, surged this week into the Hall of Fossils of London's new Geological Museum, sat down like schoolboys behind green metal desks for the World Monetary & Economic Conference, most crucial gathering since Versailles...