Word: ever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verbal slugging, scrambling and hell-raising, most people forgot that the entire House situation was only shadowboxing, since the Senate could not and would not even begin action on wage-hour legislation at this session. But the intensity of the fight revealed more clearly than ever the New Deal's slipping grip on Capitol Hill...
First Negro ever appointed to the Federal judiciary was William Henry Hastie, whom Franklin Roosevelt sent to the District Court of the racially scrambled Virgin Islands (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Judge Hastie resigned this year to become dean of Howard University's law school (Washington, D. C.). Last week came a second dispensation of this politically potent plum. Senator James Michael Slattery of Illinois, who needs the big Negro vote on Chicago's South Side for re-election next year to the seat he inherited from the late "J. Ham" Lewis, got it for his former assistant...
...reduced working hours, increased Government insurance, liberalized pensions, has raised taxes and has scared capital away. Moreover, world wool prices suddenly dropped. New Zealand found herself exporting only a few million dollars worth of goods more than she was importing, so that debt services in London were harder than ever to meet. The country's sterling reserves dwindled from $143,085,000 to $34,035,000. On top of this, an $85,000,000 loan is to mature in London next year. To save New Zealand's currency, early last winter Prime Minister Savage not only...
...nine of the ten races in which he started in 1930, including the three-year-old triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes). Trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons and ridden by smart Earl Sande, he earned the scarlet-spotted Belair silks $308,275, became the first and only horse ever to win more than $300,000 in one year...
...like the Americans. He can trace his ancestry back for 600 years. He has never been a slave and neither have any of his people. He is of Royal blood and this sort of gossip touches his family. I don't know whether I will ever marry him now. It hurts me very much for him to be socially ruined. I love him more than I ever dreamed I would. My whole life has been ruined because I tried to do too much. I shall remain in Paris until I have rectified the wrong that I have committed...