Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might slow but could not stop the steamroller. To keep it going the President sent a message to the Capitol on conservation, to accompany the report of his National Resources Board. In it he said: "A permanent National Resources Board, toward the establishment of which we should be looking forward, would recommend yearly to the President and the Congress priority of projects in the national plan. This will give to the Congress, as is entirely proper, the final determination in relation to the projects and the appropriations involved...
...days later Manager Pynchon flatly denied having said anything about "experimentation," "errors in judgment," or a $500,000 loss. But already Mrs. Roosevelt and Col. Howe had stepped forward not to deny but to excuse the loss at Reedsville...
Both longs and shorts sprang forward to attack the Exchange. Broker Dyer, a square-jawed man of 47 who cut his teeth in the sugar business as an office boy 31 years ago, declared: "My conscience is absolutely clear of any wrongdoing, and it is plainly a case of where I have been made the 'goat' to cover up errors of omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that...
...Then President Lennihan rose to assure those present that the directors would do their best to prevent a hasty sale of the plant, would try to dispose of it as a unit. That night nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge crawled into bed with nothing to look forward to but the dole...
...played tackle on the Varsity football team this fall. With the cagers his uses are two: to give Bill Gray an occasional rest, and to frighten the enemy, both of which he does to perfection. High scorer on last year's yearlings was Byron Moser, now subbing at forward. He has a deadly eye for the basket when shooting well, but is a bit light for League work. Mason, nominally a guard, is now being employed as man of all work...