Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near & dear to the heart of Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce was that Department's Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. When he became President he continued to build it up and expand its functions into a world-wide organization primarily interested in helping the U. S. businessman sell his goods abroad. If Johannesburg wanted washing machines or Brisbane underwear or Budapest typewriters or Edmonton corkscrews, what came to be known as "Hoover's Foreign Legion" would hear of it first and flash the news to the Department which then broadcast trade orders...
...knowing that it contained Senor Rafael Huezo, acting manager of the National Bank of Nicaragua. Lifted from his car. Senor Huezo was carried into the palace where President Sacasa, for years a practicing physician, personally dressed a bullet wound on the banker's head, murmured, "not serious, dear friend, not serious...
...stooping, and 20 years declining. From his first 20 years Maurice O'Sullivan recalls many wonderful things, and the swing and the lilt of his words make you think they were sung to the harp of Tara. When he was less than a year old his mother died, dear God bless her soul and the souls of the dead, so Maurice was sent to a school in Dingle since his older brothers and sisters had little more sense in them than he had at the time. In school he spoke only English. His father came to take him back...
...House. A West Virginia wrecking company sent its somewhat ambiguous "cooperation." And once in a while there is the cheery personal note, heartening to an harassed president. So far the prize goes to the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, lodge of Moose who began their response to the great summons with, "Dear Brother Moose." It is all a cross section of a nation, depicted by prepaid words on telegraph blanks...
First-Thou shalt not live, my dear country, beyond thy means...