Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A 60-min. ovation greeted their uncontested nominations. Candidate Thomas keynoted his campaign thus: "Not merely or chiefly the Democratic or Republican parties, but the capitalist system behind them stands exposed in all its brutal stupidity. Its days are numbered. Its doom is written in its own failures. . . . The choice now confronting the world is between Socialism and catastrophe...
...Chamber of Commerce of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands submitted to the U. S. State Department last week resolutions to invite Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has been advised by his physician that the Doom climate is too severe, to spend his remaining years on the Virgin Islands...
...Years later, when Castorley had become so prominent as an author on "our Dan" that the slightest jiggle might pitch him into knighthood, a fragment of a hitherto unknown "Canterbury Tale" turns up in New York. Castorley is of course consulted. The lines he proclaims undoubtedly authentic: "Plangent as doom, my dear boy?look...
Bootleggers, reading their doom in the published price list, began unloading their stocks at 50% reductions. Liquor was cheaper in Helsingfors last week than in any other European capital...
...whole, however, Mr. Roosevelt's international platform, if we may call it such, might be a great deal worse. It would be too much to expect that a presidential candidate should come out with a program which would doom him to defeat from the start. It seems best therefore to accept what there is of good in it and compare it with the programs offered by other candidates. The one with the highest percentage and still a chance to get elected will then be the man to support. In the realm of practical politics disappointment and compromise are inevitable...