Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Equality of Sacrifice." To the radio rushed Pierre Laval and explained as follows: "By the decision of Parliament we, the Government, are charged with defending the national patrimony. There are Frenchmen who talk of 'devaluation,' of 'reflation' and of 'revalorization.' They forget that France already has lost four-fifths of the value of its currency. Other Governments may prefer to print false money. This Government will have none of that...
...recognize your goodwill, but Ethiopia is as important to Italy as the British Imperial conquests were to Britain in the time of Raleigh. . . . This is a day when men who can rule should rule and not vacate their places and duties. I intend to rule. . . . The world must not forget that world production is useless and will become stagnated unless it is permitted to flow into undeveloped countries. Ethiopia must provide for important consumption of world and Italian production...
...Noted that Sir John Simon, "the Empire's Highest Feed Lawyer" did not forget that he is now Home Secretary, having been demoted from Foreign Secretary. Sir John made his debut in Home Affairs on the issue of chain letters, a racket now spreading from the U. S. throughout Great Britain. Famed for his ability to speak learnedly on any subject without committing himself to either side, the Home Secretary toyed with the question whether in Great Britain chain letters are legal or illegal. "I may observe," said the Great Lawyer, "that certain types of snowball schemes, to which chain...
...factors in his career McIntyre does not let his readers forget. One is that he and his wife suffered the harshest privations when they first arrived in Manhattan 23 years ago, after a knockabout newspaper career in the Midwest. At that time his problem was to get editors to print his column for nothing, so he might collect an occasional meal or the price of room rent from some restaurant or hotel whose name he had insinuated into print. His wife patiently worked the mimeograph machine, licked the stamps, kept what records there were. The other point is that...
...Houston ruled Tennessee and practically created Texas, but there were plenty of times when Virginia was glad to forget that he had been born at Timber Ridge Church, seven miles from Lexington. He lived as a boy with the Cherokees in Tennessee, got to be Governor at 34, quit late in his term because his aristocratic new wife had left him under tongue-wagging circumstances. Sam Houston went back to the Indians to forget. The Indians admired him, trusted him, gave him a squaw, but changed their name for him from "Col-on-neh" to "Big Drunk...