Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...halve the 4? a pound copper tariff, in order to unfix the copper market by bringing 6 to 8? Chilean and Canadian Copper in. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his eye on scrap and steel as much as on copper, addressed another letter to Wyoming's Senator Joseph ("Dear Joe") O'Mahoney, charged his Temporary National Economic Committee to guard against price profiteering. This time the President meant business...
Just behind and to his left was Cordell Hull. In semicircle before him sat Vice President Garner, fresh from Texas; Speaker Bankhead of the House; "Dear Alben" Barkley and the President's actual captain in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes; Republican Floor Leaders McNary (Senate) and Joe Martin (House); G. O. P.'s Alf Landon, and his 1936 running mate, flattered Frank Knox of Chicago. To them Franklin Roosevelt forecast a long and widening war, hammered home that the longer the war, the greater the danger to the U. S., hence the U. S. should try to shorten...
...bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first...
...down the gangplank wrapped in a seaman's green-&-white-striped jersey; there was John Hayworth of Hamilton, Ont., father of ten-year-old Margaret Hayworth, whose head was crushed in the explosion, waiting at the pier for his wife to disembark. Mrs. Hayworth met him, and sobbed, "Dear God, John, she's gone...
...foreign consumption Field Marshal Goring adroitly suggested that Germany would consider peace negotiations. But "you will not dictate another Versailles to us, my dear Britons. . . . Do not mistake our offer of peace for weakness. We have a deep will to peace. It is greater and deeper in the spirit of the Führer...