Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When adjournment was postponed the President could only go philosophically to bed. Sunday morning he awoke without the light-hearted feeling he had a right to expect. Instead of voyaging down the Potomac on the Sequoia he stayed at home talking with upset Congressmen by telephone. On Monday, two conferences with Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee having failed to turn any means of untangling the snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this...
...level and thereby encourage cotton exports which have fallen off badly as a result of the pegged price. This long-range advantage did not appeal to Southern Senators. They bellyached mightily to the effect that a 9? loan sounded cheap and shoddy to their constituents who had learned to expect bigger and finer things from the generous New Deal. Unexpressed, but probably more potent, was the fact that Cotton Senators knew that cotton mills and speculators in the South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later...
...Crusades (Paramount). Cinemaddicts who have had 20 years in which to grow accustomed to the methods of Cecil Blount DeMille by now have some idea what to expect in a DeMille version of the Holy Wars. The Crusades should fulfill all expectations. As a picture it is historically worthless, didactically treacherous, artistically absurd. None of these defects impairs its entertainment value. It is a $1,000,000 sideshow which has at least three features which distinguish it from the long line of previous DeMille extravaganzas. It is the noisiest; it is the biggest; it contains no baths...
...Marseille, Richard gets a boatload of cattle and feed for his army by marrying the daughter of the King of Navarre. She is a thoroughly worthwhile blonde named Berengaria (Loretta Young), and Richard sails off to the Wars in much better style than he had any reason to expect...
...outlay of just $5,000. In addition he assumed a $150,000 mortgage on the plant, $40,000 in overdue interest, $35,000 in unpaid taxes. Automan Evans said he and his associates would buy $250,000 worth of new machinery. "Within ten days," he announced, "we expect to have ready enough parts for the 10,000 Austins now running. Then we will swing into making new cars. Within a year's time we expect to invade the foreign fields...