Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This fiscal year, the U. S. Army is costing $492,896,735, a record peacetime high. Since the U. S. is determined not to fight abroad and does not expect to have to fight at home, the public may well ask whether its half billion dollars is serving any purpose except to keep up with the Joneses of Europe and Asia. Where, how, and for what does the U. S. Army expect to fight...
Continentals expect an Englishman to arrive on diplomatic missions with an odor of sanctity, and Prague was not surprised to read that before Lord Runciman left Cowes, where he had been yachting, he bowed his head in its Holy Trinity Church while the vicar intoned a prayer "for one who is about to go to Czechoslovakia...
Habitués of Sardi's, Broadway's theatrical rendezvous, expect some day to attend an opening of a play like this with some such title as The Battle of the Market Place. For frequently to be seen at Sardi's, where he was long known solely as "Mr. Chocolate" from his penchant for hot chocolate, is a young theatre enthusiast who sees every play that comes to Broadway and has already written three himself (none produced). At present, Mr. Chocolate is too busy to keep up his writing; he happens to be the new president...
...agreed in objective. And on January 27 they produced just such a program as Douglas wanted-complete reorganization, with a paid president, increased technical staff, various safeguards to insure democratic rule. Few days before the Conway plan came out, Douglas gave the Exchange a taste of what it might expect unless it cleaned its own stables: SEC issued a new rule sharply curtailing short sales. Thus spurred, the Exchange endorsed the Conway recommendations at once. Richard Whitney again mobilized his opposition, but early in March came the event which definitely delivered the battle into reform hands-Whitney, so long...
...that Bulgaria has openly rearmed, the realm of Tsar Boris too may expect to benefit from the "loans" which Britain and France are so lavishly making to assure that the Balkan States will stand with Democracy (TIME, July 25). Paris dispatches this week announced that a consortium of French banks are "studying" the question of lending Bulgaria three hundred million francs...