Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order from PWAdministrator Ickes-acting at President Roosevelt's express bidding-telling a subordinate to give "prompt attention" and "right of way" to two new PWA bridges for Maryland...
...foreign policy. Next day their fears were relieved. Out came the Australian Prime Minister, bluff Joseph A. Lyons, with one of the most vigorous backslaps for British Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy ever delivered. To newshawks Prime Minister Lyons declared that his Cabinet had decided to express to Great Britain its complete confidence in steps and methods adopted by the British Government for a peaceful settlement of the Czechoslovak-Sudeten German dispute...
...four of the major U. S. airlines with his contention that the logical metropolitan air terminal for mail, express and passengers was not Newark but New York City. Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark...
...Committee, agreed in principle with his President but cheerfully recalled how Michigan Democrats, in their weakened condition prior to 1928, used to vote in the Republican primaries as a matter of course. "In the Southern States," observed Senator Brown, "it is about the only way the [Republican] minority can express itself...
...ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties give him the right to walk the streets and express himself, the privilege of carrying signs is taxable...