Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer colonial to Britishers, with the possible exceptions of detective stories and letters-to-the-Times. But while a glaring U. S. dawn silhouets many a crude indigenous growth, England's politely setting sun bathes her literary garden in a relatively classic glow. English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers. For such tastes Authoresses Rosamond Lehmann, Margaret Kennedy and Victoria Sackville-West (see cols...
...first, did not. as Republicans claim, come from abroad. The economic collapse developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around to budget balancing. Declared Democrat Garner...
...success of its graduates, and the extent to which its methods have been adopted in this country and abroad, the quarter century has been a success. Like the Law School before it, the Business School has seen its system of instruction overcome a dead weight of tradition and distrust. It is today generally followed by business schools everywhere. The statistical service which it supplied to students of economics, and its regular reports on business conditions, long enjoyed a unique popularity. Within the framework of our business civilization, it has probably functioned almost perfectly...
...higher protectionist than he. He ardently advocates Philippine independence to put that possession's sugar crop outside the tariff wall. He voted for coal, oil and copper tariffs in the 1932 Revenue Act. Because of his passion for Republican tariffs most Democratic leaders eye him with political distrust. To the press gallery he is a Democrat in name only and his vote can generally be anticipated. His proudest political feat was inducing Republicans to agree to legislation naming a new Washington street after his State...
This was exactly the sort of complaint which the Shannon committee wanted & expected to get. Unexpected was the intrusion of two disabled veterans-Joe W. McQueen and Alexander D. Saper. The Disabled American Veterans (organized as such) have a thoroughgoing distrust of private hospitals which make contracts with the Government for the care of veterans. The men believe that veterans get less care and attention than do private patients. No matter what happens to men hospitalized for nonservice disabilities, for themselves Disabled American Veterans want Veterans Bureau hospitals...