Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Load, Lest we forget--they were not martyrs, but poor, deluded fools. Spare us from their fate. James L. Hymes...
...appeal for the Forgotten Man'' were some verses by 80-year-old Edwin Markham, author of "The Man With the Hoe." Excerpt : Not on our golden fortunes builded high- Not on our boasts that soar into the sky- Not upon these is resting in this hour The fate of the future; but upon the power Of him who is forgotten-yes, on him Rest all our hopes reaching from...
...Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts.. . . Declared President Hoover: "The United States did not bring this calamity on the world. . . . any party which exhibits such a lack of understanding should not be trusted with the fate of 25,000,000 American families...
...late William Bolitho once wrote: "In the luxurious hand dealt England by Fate . . . the longest suit is the Jew. . . . Do not forget . . . Marcus Samuel, who gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever...
...along the road toward Plymouth, and at its wheel sat a stately, dignified man, gray but hale, taking obvious delight in the throbbing power he controlled. The needle on the swank dial crept from left to right, from sixty to seventy, perhaps toward that exhilarating eighty. It was then fate intervened, and when the big Buick drew to a stop by the kerb the policeman's scathing tongue had respect for neither the distinguished lawyer or famed administrator that were one in the stately, dignified...