Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gifford Pinchot: General Johnson*. . . I wonder if you ever stay awake at night seeing the faces of the thousands of men and women who are pacing the streets of Pennsylvania towns, jobless and desperate, without resources and with despair in their hearts, because they had faith in your promises and went ahead and organized a union and for so doing lost their jobs, and never a finger in Washington lifted to help them...
Matthew Smith, Mechanics Educational Society of Detroit (automobile labor): The NRA is definitely scared of Ford and General Motors. Labor has been fairly patient but now if the NRA does not function old-fashioned strikes will. . . . We have tried the law but we are disillusioned and have no faith in it any more...
Spitfire (RKO), completed before Katharine Hepburn left Hollywood for her Manhattan stage appearance in The Lake, is an unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls...
...abrogation," he said, "on the part of the Government of the contracts with the airmail operators, made in good faith on the part of the operators, and the recommendation that these lines have no preemptive right to carry mail over routes that they have pioneered, places a golden opportunity before the promoters all over the country to get active again to promote companies to bid and sell their interest out to the American public at large profits
...yesterday that Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon find little to comfort them in the present settup of the Gill inquiry. The body of the attack was originally to have centered in the report of Francis X. Hurley, state auditor. That report was, for some, a distinct disappointment. Intelligent public faith in it was destroyed by the press fanfare which accompanied the confidential investigation and which derived its information from "authoritative sources in the State House;" to a great many the whole business looked like a publicity stunt, designed to build up a promising young politician. And, as if this were...