Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many people the death picture of Gerald Thompson [TIME, Oct. 28] is more than "distasteful." It leaves a horrible scar. We don't expect to be so hopelessly exposed to that sort of thing in TIME...
...tariff trading with Secretary of State Hull. Results were not very promising. The U. S. and Canada are not like Jack Sprat & wife. Commercially they are much more like Jack Sprat and his twin brother Bill: in general, they produce similar products. Neither Canada nor the U. S. can expect the other to take its surplus wheat or copper. When the Canadians asked whether the U. S. would take Canadian fish, potatoes, butter, cattle, the answer was: "Unfortunately, we have enough. But we might take a little lumber and some liquor." Even on Canada's one big export...
...Ickes: Why Mr. Ickes for the engineering task of remaking much of the face of the country? . . . Nothing in all of Mr. Ickes' honest lawyer's life remotely suggested that he could do such a job-and he didn't do it. It was folly to expect him to do it. ... The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers . . . might not have done the job either, but at least it had an engineer's chance to do it and Mr. Ickes didn't have a Chinaman's. Either as an aid to recovery, a construction...
...citizens with parents or other aged relatives to support, but to impartial eyes Secretary Clements' audience seemed as likely a collection of prospects as an undertaker could find outside Old Folks Home. Nonetheless their numbers and zeal served notice that the Townsend dream still lived, warned Congressmen to expect another wave of letters and petitions when they reconvene in January. The convention also introduced to the nation the man who, out of good Dr. Francis E. Townsend's misty imaginings, has built a rich & potent political organization which fills Eastern politicians with foreboding, Western politicians with genuine alarm...
During these several years the Vagabond has learned to expect most anything to happen in his Tower. But this was a bit too much...