Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fail and the President demands killing sums for relief, the prospects of new taxation are heightened--and at this suggestion the Congressional barometer falls. "Dependable Jimmy Byrnes" and long suffering Joe Robinson are both demanding cuts in appropriations and when these two stalwarts kick against the pricks we may expect wholesale defection in the Cherokee strip...
...date, I am happy to say that we have obtained the consent of sufficient men in Winthrop House and elsewhere to redecorate while they are in residence, to keep some eighteen men busy during the winter and spring who would probably otherwise have been unemployed. Next year we expect to considerably better this record...
...rioting students of Harvard and Technology doubtless expect easy indulgence. They think the public should say, "Oh, well, it's all in fun. It's just a way of reducing spring fever. Kindly remember we're still children at eighteen or twenty...
...death-cell last week in Plötzensee Penitentiary in Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I expect no clemency and I am calm and await death with perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen...
...been kind to me," said Mr. Williams in the precise British accent of his native Jamaica, B. W. I. "But I didn't expect anything like this." In Omaha, scene of lynching and riot in 1919, newshawks called a dozen Presbyterians at random, found ' that all but one, a Southerner, approved of the election of John Simeon Williams. For seven years this slight, 39-year-old man of God, who left Jamaica to labor in Cuban sugar fields, left there to earn his way as a tailor through Alabama schools and a Chicago seminary, has shepherded an Omaha...