Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote so far: For, 49: Against...
Bermuda is far too lovely to ever be prosituted by Americanization. I'd vote...
With this limited delivery and this one gesture he kept the Republican Party alive in the Senate from 1934 to 1939. He developed a new system of attack on the New Deal. Instead of useless frontal offensives, Vandenberg went along with the New Deal far enough to find the flaws; then by reading and study mastered the technical answers to those flaws; then amended constructively. In this way he exposed the "dangers" of the Social Security's so-called $47,000,000,000 old-age reserve fund of the future. Similarly he won smashing victories over Franklin Roosevelt when...
...When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless," Moley wrote to his sister Nell in 1932. ". . . He seems quite naturally warm and friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect ... is F. D. R.'s great receptivity. So far as I know he makes no effort to check up on anything I or anyone else has told him. I wonder what would happen if we should selfishly try to put things over...
...Peace Jitters." In far from bucolic Wall Street, meanwhile, war babies stocks sagged heavily as traders, apprehensive of peace proposals Orator Hitler might make at Danzig, did a little quick profit taking, then spun the dials of their radio sets to hear the Führer. "It was a market based on peace jitters," recorded Financial Editor C. Norman Stabler of the New York Herald Tribune. He figured that the day before, "the market lost 32% of the war upswing" because it was feared that A. Hitler might directly propose peace...