Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answering "Dear Clay's" letter of resignation, President Roosevelt accepted the withdrawal with "sincere regret," but, with an eye toward his own public record, was at pains to point...
...down a 17-point program proposing amendments to limit NRA to "what can be legally accomplished." The Weirton decision had cast grave doubt on the NRA's legal power to regulate intrastate industrial affairs simply by spicing the law with the "commerce clause" of the Constitution. With an eye to avoiding a peck of court trouble, Mr. Richberg therefore announced: "Codification should be limited to those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate commerce...
Though he chiefly blamed Political Boss and ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles for the persecution of priests in Mexico, Archbishop Ruiz, just, meticulous, declared that in one respect General Calles and the Holy See see eye to eye. "I do not believe Calles represents any danger to the principle of private property, which the Church likewise supports," observed her Apostolic Delegate, "but he does represent a threat to the Church. . . . Some of Calles' actions, such as the Government distribution of lands to the peons and the establishment of minimum wage laws in industry, have won a good deal...
...Lavietes, a light, fast, and smart substitute forward, and James Robinson, who has been used as general utility man. The returning Sophomore contingent is especially strong, however, containing as it does the five men who started against Yale in their Freshman year. Of these, outstanding in the public eye this year have been long Bill Gray, the tall center and renowned humorist and clown, and Leavitt (Levi) White, captain of his Freshman team, and a fast and accurate-shooting forward, who possesses the rare ability of being able to keep a team well coordinated while on the floor...
Read Franck's "Vagabond in Sovietland" if you would see Russia and Russian conditions with a photographic and unprejudiced eye. The book will not excite you because the author does not try to pack his book with sensational facts, but the book will hold you interested from the very first page to the last line...