Word: extents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, Britain is boss of the waves to a greater extent than in 1914, when the German Navy was second in the world, not sixth. But air menace makes the value of England's navy a conundrum, the tradition of Nelson a question mark. London, nerve-centre of the Empire, is 330 miles closer to German airports than Berlin is to English airports. British aircraft and munitions factories are easy targets in the open. And in another war Britain's food supply from overseas may be threatened by air raiders as well as submarine raiders...
...great extent the Y. M. C. A. still suffers, in the popular mind, from the reputation it acquired during the World War, when soldiers welcomed the use of its huts but resented the attentions of its gladhanding, often sanctimonious secretaries. Latterly the Y. M. C. A. in the U. S., with its $212,000,000 in property and endowment and its $48,000,000 income, has been accused-because its high command eschews politico-economic controversy-of being socially laggard, of being a closed corporation in which working secretaries tend to become older and older. Nevertheless...
...topped off by peach shortcake. The President and Tax Revisionist Pat Harrison (who had huffily told Mr. Roosevelt he was going to get a new tax bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest compromiser in the Senate. Giving in to an extent almost unknown during the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt finally told Henry ("Henny-Penny"), Morgenthau it was all right if he wanted to tell the Congressmen to remove certain tax-irritants...
...study of the whole tax problem by a joint committee of the House Ways & Means and Appropriations and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee members, with special attention to the present law which provides that corporation excess of capital losses can be deducted only to the extent of $2,000 plus capital gains...
With his customary bull-in-china-shop finesse Mr. Dies managed to kick the chairman of the Republican National Committee, redheaded John Hamilton, out of the subversive bag. Mr. Hamilton, it seems, had been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were...