Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came out of Kansas to be Assistant Secretary in 1933. When Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936, President Roosevelt was in the midst of a re-election campaign and the easy thing to do was up Harry Woodring. In 1937, having failed to work up much enthusiasm for mild Mr. Woodring, the President chose for Assistant Secretary a go-getting West Virginia lawyer and Legionnaire, Louis Johnson. Reports that Mr. Johnson had been promised his boss's job soon reached the newspapers and the boss. Secretary Woodring thereupon set himself to keeping his job and getting...
...German people were silent and sad. There was no enthusiasm for the war and little desire to talk about it. But the crisis had brought them closer together. On the streets and in public places they showed one another the courtesy of unhappy people who know that others are unhappy...
...Complete lack of enthusiasm among the common people in Germany" is the principal difference in the Reich today from the conditions of 25 years ago, Charles G. Loomis, instructor in German, who returned this week from Munich, declared yesterday...
...State Department wanted the law discretionary; Secretary Hull sought to have the law read: "The President may proclaim." Without enthusiasm, Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill that came to his ship in the Gulf of Mexico May 1, 1937 - and the word was "shall." Last week the President spoke from the House rostrum his grave regret for that signature of approval - the first time since he became Chief Executive he has thus publicly admitted a major mistake. This conciliatory note was typical of the surface serenity of last week's Washington scene...
...last week began, Canada had no enthusiasm for the war she was in. She was miserably conscious of her weakness. Her war machinery creaked. No one liked being committed to Britain's foreign policy without having a voice...