Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best speech attentively but with no loud enthusiasm. The only really lusty cheer went up when the nominee lapsed into slang to condemn the slapdash Revenue Act of 1936. That his tax blast at the New Deal was no dud, however, became politically plain as potent Democrats rushed forward to dispute, deny and denounce his criticism...
When Gene Talmadge announced for the Senate last July 4 he put forward a ten-point platform which included abolition of tax-exempt Government bonds, a Federal budget of less than $1,000,000,000 per year, 2^ postage and abolition of the Federal income tax. But beyond any such fantastic reforms, beyond his abuse of Richard B. Russell Jr. and the New Deal, Candidate Talmadge stressed in his speeches, his broadsides and his weekly sheet The Statesman ("Editor: The People; Associate Editor: Eugene Talmadge") the impressive and incontrovertible fact of his Governorship: TALMADGE KEPT HIS PROMISES...
...full regiment of infantry, seven batteries of artillery and massed machine-guns burst into action. Here again dynamite came into play, being hurled in packets of 25 lbs. with short-cut fuses, sizzling and whirling over the walls and battlements. At the same time the workers' militia stormed forward with bayonets fixed, the women putting up a barrage of hand grenades. The antique iron-plated gate was blown from its hinges with dynamite, and the sweat-streaming, half-naked advance guard poured into the greatest stronghold but one on the northern front...
...Incredible hand-to-hand encounters followed, in which men threw themselves on top of each other in utter disregard of danger, perfectly contemptuous of death, bombing, slashing, stabbing and firing; forcing themselves forward step by step into the labyrinthine maze of underground passages in the old fort; climbing over the bodies of slain and wounded, both sides, howling and crying in a scarcely human...
...eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction as the wreckage piled up around him. Just as a freight car reared up over his head the pile of wreckage gave way, and he was shot forward with the released water. That sent him into open water, and he was safe. As he climbed to the roof of another dwelling, he made a characteristic gesture. He looked at his watch. It was not quite...