Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Commerce, before leaving New Orleans after his ninth tour of the Mississippi flood areas, said: "I will not say one word about politics as long as I am engaged in flood relief work. . . . Every crevasse in the Mississippi valley is being closed . . . and by Dec. 1, I expect, the work will be completed. The War Department is going ahead with the work. ... I feel certain the money to pay for it will be found...
...ever have been supposed to have. ... [I] will never willingly consent to any further association with him. . . ." To onetime Governor of Missouri Stephens, ex- President Wilson had written in 1922, when Senator Reed became a candidate for re-election to the U. S. Senate: "I shall hope and confidently expect to see him repudiated by the Democrats at the primaries. Certainly Missouri cannot afford to be represented by such a marplot."- Now in Kansas, once a strong Wilson state, U. S. Senator Reed praised Woodrow Wilson, implied his association with the onetime President in the passage of a popular...
...character of indecision, frequently resulting in disagreement." Making it clear that he was referring to foreign oil investments, Senor Calles remarked that some petroleum men had assumed a rebellious attitude to the Government that "no independent country could accept," adding that foreigners must accept Mexican laws and not expect more than the rights of Mexicans, "who are the indisputable owners of their country." He claimed considerable success for the oil laws of Dec. 21, 1926 (TIME...
...other five Governors echoed his sentiments. The Californians knew very well that sparsely settled Arizona could not expect to develop all her water rights within 20 years. Populous California, on the other hand, needs water in her rich subdivision, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, and is ready to spend huge sums at once to get that water. The conferees pointed fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses...
...same time facilitating the entry of products that are badly needed, a fact that goes far to favor the Franco-German industrial cartel. Germany wins several points: 1) She secured a much needed outlet for her industrial products. 2) She obtained equal trade treatment, which she did not expect. 3) She forced the French to reaffirm their renunciation, made at the time of the London Conference (TIME, Sept. 1, 8, 1924), of their right (Versailles Treaty, Article XVIII) to seize German private property in the event of the Reich defaulting on reparation payments...