Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solomon's success is particularly gratifying to his Lansing, Mich. friends (where he was permanent conductor of the local symphony immediately before going to Chicago) because in spite of their efforts, the local public was not astute enough to realize his worth, withholding the support necessary to keep him from slipping through its fingers...
Last week the U. S. Navy had news of the biggest and some of the smallest fighting boats in the world. Big and little, the boats were on paper, but they were near enough to water to catch the interest of admirals, dictators and all those, including Franklin Roosevelt, who thrill to anything that floats...
Real mosquitoes, as distinguished from subchasers, must be fast enough and small enough to dart among an enemy fleet, loose torpedoes at murderous range. Benito Mussolini's Navy perfected them, used them to good advantage against Loyalist Spain and even showed the way to British mosquito designers (including famed Racer Hubert Scott-Paine). For the price of a 45,000-ton battleship, the U. S. Navy probably could build 750 mosquitoes, as an experiment plans to order four immediately. On the theory that the U. S. probably will never have to fight a naval war at home, Navy...
...hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice he succeeded. Last week, noting that the negotiations seemed hopelessly stalled, Green & Co. compelled Chairman Thomas and his committee to set a date-April 11, soon enough to take testimony, get the amendments on the Senate floor for action...
This incident is only one example of the hundreds of forms of pressure which had been brought to bear on President Lebrun. who some time ago expressed his reluctance to run for a second seven-year term. This week, just four days before the election, he bucked up enough to announce that he would run again. In a speech in Montélimar. in the Rhone valley, at ceremonies memorializing France's seventh President (1899-1906). Emile Loubet, President Lebrun quoted a famous Loubet statement: "I didn't come here [into office] for my pleasure...