Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having left Republican Governor Lawrence McCully Judd on the job ten months longer than he had a right to expect, President Roosevelt last week named Democrat Joseph Boyd Poindexter of Honolulu as his successor...
...Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent of the New York Times: "In the War and Navy Departments there is a division of opinion among our high command as to the imminence of a military crisis between Japan and Soviet Russia. But . . . their disagreement is only as to time: most of them expect...
...Congressional groupings it will take, at the present rate of urban growth, ten years for them to acquire control of a majority of votes in the House and a minimum of twenty years in the Senate. Thus, while urbane politics presses upon us we need not expect its complete triumph for some years...
...pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect, and, if the demand had not been made upon him he was experienced and able enough to have managed the Insull machine through a period of reduced income...
...Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect them to make Sinclair the next governor of California. Opposition from the Dark Powers is of course foreseen by the prophet, but apparently mostly in the form of attempts to compromise him with a beautiful blonde...