Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park he broadcast a pre-election appeal. Its theme was: "Social or economic gain made by one administration may and often does evaporate into thin air under the next. . . . We have to have reasonable continuity in liberal government to get permanent results. . . .* If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism and communism aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism will grow in strength...
...daughter over the radio (TIME, June 28, 1937). Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger last week pre-announced on her "Homemaker" page in her husband's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "PRELUDE TO THE MARCH ARRIVAL OF A NEW CITIZEN. . . . My husband, my mother and I ... made plans for the looked-forward-to arrival of my mother's newest grandchild. The biggest question was, could mother arrange to be on the spot to help usher into the world a new citizen for Seattle...
...Looking forward to his legislative program for the next Congress President Roosevelt last week also turned his thoughts to Housing. He told his press conference† that four phases of his broad Housing program were now functioning effectively: Home Owners' Loan Corp., to save small mortgaged properties for their owners; Slum Clearance, which has been taken up by almost all large U. S. cities; USHA, which finances new tenements for people who can afford not more than $5 per room per month; Federal Housing Administration, which finances home owners who can afford $10 per room per month...
...Spanish war front burst into sudden activity last week when a powerfully reinforced Rightist Army moved forward against the Leftist-held Ebro River salient. It was the eighth in a series of costly Rightist attempts to regain the narrow, mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August...
Doughty and Davage played a good game at full backs. Burwell showed some good ball handling when the forward line was pressing the New Bedford goal...