Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral rite. "For 20 years," he warned the Chamber of Deputies, "the situation in Europe has not been so delicate nor so grave as now. On the other side of our frontiers there are 3,000,000 men mobilized. In their factories the manufacture of armaments is being pushed forward feverishly. Reports keep reaching us of maneuvers and troop concentrations. It may be this summer that the issue between those who desire the pacific collaboration of nations and the attempt at domination of some of these peoples by others will be joined...
This rebuff left Federation officials with the problems of: 1) 700 disappointed delegates, who had looked forward to fun in Rio, and 2) where to hold their meeting. Last week they neatly got around their difficulty. Accepting the Government's explanation that the invitation had been withdrawn, not for political reasons, but only because a new convention hall had not been completed, they decided to go to Rio for their fun, hold their meetings afterward on the homeward cruising S. S. Rotterdam...
Economically we now stand little ahead of where we stood four years ago. ... I do not think the people will ... be content with timid solutions offered by government, solutions fearfully withdrawn before they can be really tested. Unless the nation is led unhesitatingly and courageously forward ... we stand in danger...
...Secretary Henry Wallace, another candidate for 1940, also beckoned Wisconsin last week. Speaking at Milwaukee he said: "For all the liberal-minded voters of this State, there can be but one choice - forward toward the splendid objectives of our great President...
...Thomas would undoubtedly alarm his more sober countrymen. Typical Beecham attitude: "It is safe to prophesy that the ideological lunatics who abound in every country will, both in the press and out of it, continue their unhappy endeavors to widen the breach between one country and another. I look forward, therefore, to a highly ironical and diverting climax to the current epoch of political myopia...