Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor in its relation to the national life than a conference and a plea for industrial peace. It is significant of the lack of any clearly-defined policy towards industry at Washington that the administration entertains the hope of a mere truce in the present difficulties. Apparently, the dream of permanent settlement of these difficulties, so optimistically fostered with the creation of the National Labor Board, and the Regional Labor Boards, cannot be realized for some time to come...
Mississippi was practically bankrupt when Theodore Bilbo left the Governor's mansion in 1932 and so was he. Last year he could not raise $500 to settle a claim against his $75,000 "dream home" at Poplarville, where he grows pecans. A cousin took the place over and Democrat Bilbo was delighted to get a $6,000-a-year job in Washington clipping newspapers for AAA in an office across the hall from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that...
...piously against the plan. But the irrepressible Daily News was all for it because "there's no fun in a sales tax, a business tax, or a subway tax, but there's lots of fun in a lottery because every ticket buyer has a right to dream of winning. . . . We hope that Mayor LaGuardia, who has shown plenty of guts in the past, will not be frightened by the squeamish squawks he's hearing now from clergymen and others. . . . The same people now squawking against the lottery are those who said public sentiment was against Repeal...
Part of the audience is frankly scared as the second act of the Washington drama begins to take on the atmosphere of a professor's bad dream. With one man in every six on the government relief rolls, with an avowed Socialist about to become the Democratic Governor of California; with capital slowly beginning a flight out of the country, the conventional happy ending seems a bit doubtful. Of course there is still time to work around to the usual solution, but indications point to a collapse of government credit before the final curtain. In addition, the playwright has placed...
...hadn't shipped powder to France she would have been defeated and Germany would have conquered England as well. The Kaiser with his world dream of power wouldn't have stopped there...