Word: glum
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...West; Mr. Hopkins and his crack statistician, Corrington Gill; Frank Walker, Rex Tugwell, Budget Director Daniel Bell. Morning, afternoon & evening pencils scratched, words flew across the big library table in Hyde Park House. When the visitors set out for Washington late at night Mr. Hopkins looked chipper, Mr. Ickes glum...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee was lukewarm, Senator Robinson stepped in, took on the unpopular task of championing the World Court for Franklin Roosevelt. Father Coughlin, Huey Long and William Randolph Hearst beat the kettledrums against the Court. Senator Robinson fought valiantly but vainly (TIME, Feb. 11). Grim and glum, he received from Franklin Roosevelt (who laughed off the misadventure) a note thanking him for his "very able and very honorable fight...
Enigmatically New Brunswick's masses marched to the polls. When their ballots were counted glum Conservative Tilley was forced to resign and in as Premier breezed Liberal Allison A. Dysart. This made New Brunswick the fifth of Canada's nine provinces to "turn the Conservatives out." Only the smallest province, Prince Edward Island, which will vote this month, remains Conservative. In Ottawa discouragement among Conservatives was so acute that within the Party there was talk that Mr. Bennett might abruptly retire and put in the field some other Conservative whom Canada's mob had not become accustomed...
...outside market; and in his day, not even Alaskans could be persuaded to eat the soggy Alaskan potato. What with the hardships of clearing the land, the short summer season, the extremely cold winters, the plague of mosquitoes and other insects, Mr. Christensen considers the colonists' prospects so glum that the Government will be obliged to support them and eventually return them to the States...
Then the roll was called on the Patman Bill the ten Senators who had voted to substitute it for the Vinson Bill flopped back to vote against it as it was approved 55-to-33. So Legion Commander Belgrano retired from the gallery in glum defeat. Commander Van Zandt of the VFW left the gallery in triumph and proclaimed a "decisive victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could...