Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan that had been put forward, by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, had roused the violent objections of Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson. The President was said to be leaning toward the Morgenthau side...
...Barbara Stanwyck, who is Mrs. Robert Taylor in private life, got a cheer when she told the vast audience that at last a man has stepped forward to lead us out of twelve years of doubt...
Pennsylvania's level headed Representative Herman P. Eberharter best summed up the dying Congress' feeble handling of the problem. Said he: "These gentlemen fail to realize the magnitude of the shock that is going to occur in this country. . . . They are failing to look forward to the future with any vision. . . . They are failing to attack the problem now because it requires a little bit of courage...
Vigorous steps forward toward uprightness were taken last week by the People's Political Council (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Good People Are." Meanwhile his own career went forward like the life of one of the men of letters he wrote about. For a year he was assistant to Editor Walter Hines Page on World's Work. For two years he wrote definitions or a dictionary, articles for an encyclopedia. Like Edwin Arlington Robinson, he could draw a map of New York City, showing the location of every free lunch counter. One of his good friends was John Butler Yeats, the painter, father of William Butler Yeats. The old man lectured to him on the value of idleness, painted...