Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor President Hoover appointed Mr. Mellon Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1932. After a gently graceful year in London, Mr. Mellon stepped quietly back to private life on March 17, 1933. He did not hope for respect from the new Administration but he did expect peace...
...high standard of living and if the internal resources of men, nature, and machines cannot supply them, then find out what must be imported. National interest will then be acquiring what we need with the best possible advantage." In closing Mr. Beard said with some fervor that "I expect to see American blood spilled on Manchukuo soil in order to sell American cigarettes and kerosene to Chinese coolies...
...Care-Takers, when asked where the water is coming from. "It may be escaping from a broken, or discarded main; it may be the overflow from one of the numerous springs in this vicinity; or it may be simply underground water draining down to the Charles. But we expect shortly to get to the truth of the matter...
...excitement when Republican Oscar De Priest's wife in a blue chiffon dress, grey hat and coat and on Mrs. Herbert Hoover's invitation, went to the White House one afternoon to drink tea with white Congressmen's ladies (TIME, June 24, 1929). Mrs. Mitchell will expect a similar tea-date with Mrs. Roosevelt. "There is no prejudice against my people in the present Administration.'' the black Gentleman from Illinois told his constituents. "This is a new day under a New Deal...
With all these assurances warming his old lawyer's cockles Sir John purred: "Thus we have the right to expect that, with due restraint in all quarters, the Saar plebiscite will be carried through in due order on Jan. 13 next...