Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired first session ended last summer: crop control, antilynching, wages and hours legislation, reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, regional planning. The President promised his final decision on an extra session probably within a week. In Washington three days later, he announced that he would make the first "fireside talk" of the autumn to a national radio audience early this week...
...matters of economics, he was too much of an Old Guard Republican in political reputation to carry much weight in 1936. After a summer of cruising on his yacht Avalon and two weeks of slight illness that had caused his doctors no alarm, Financier Mills went quietly to his final accounting...
Voters balloted last Sunday on 16,000 candidates who sought 3,500 local offices in the cantons of France. As usual no candidate won in hundreds of constituencies, and in these final balloting takes place next Sunday. Returns from the first poll gave moderate bourgeois Premier Camille Chautemps, whose Radical Socialist Party is ludicrously misnamed, every reason to think that the French people have not swung to either extreme since they last voted in 1936, but favor the Popular Front Cabinet as its policies were recently revised and made less radical (TIME, Oct. 11). So far as could be judged...
...final rush of Legionnaires off arriving ships brought the number in France to 4,500 and with ample dignity they gathered to see dedicated the Franco-U. S. War Monument just outside Versailles on the highway to Paris. Built almost entirely with money donated in small sums by school children and their elders throughout France, the monument features statues of General John Joseph Pershing and the Marquis de Lafayette...
...bold enough, heretical enough, to proclaim in the face of all existing dogma that the earth was round. He smiled, too, as he thought of his wanderings in the American waters--then as unknown as a black void and filled with infinite terrors, and the explorations, and the final failures and ultimate defeat of that gallant seafarer. He smiled, thinking of the way the sea often wins out against the boldest plans of men, of the mystery of the sea that made men still love to sail it, and suffer on it, and sometimes conquer...