Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success in November. If possible, at each stop Governor Landon tried to say something of folksy local interest. At Lexington, Neb., for instance, he recalled that he was in the hometown of Footballer "Swede" Berquist who used to knock holes in the Kansas line. Promptly Mr. Berquist surged forward out of the station crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage truck and shouted above the din: "This is a grand welcome...
...Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker as a man "sane, sound, sensible and sincere." Alf Landon stepped forward to explain his ideals to his home folks...
...blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of the line -the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. . . . Nevertheless-and I speak from a long experience-the effective maintenance of American neutrality depends today, as in the past, on the wisdom and determination of whoever at the moment...
...Revolution, General Franco announced: "We want a national government and intend to assure all classes in Spain a chance to draft a Liberal constitution assuring justice for middle-class property owners as well as for the working class. ... We propose that long-needed social reforms shall actually be pushed forward in Spain. . . . We started the revolt only after it had become self-evident that the Government was playing into the hands of the Communists and extreme Socialists and that there was no justice for others. The aims of the National Revolution are to restore peace, justice and democracy with favor...
...Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards, with horror on their boyish Nazi faces, came bounding forward, the California Kisser blithely disengaged herself, was permitted to run to her husband who had shot the whole sequence with his home cinema camera. "Hitler," enthused Mrs. de Vries, "was ever so nice...