Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter dodge would be no great shakes as a revenue raiser. From the former, the most optimistic guesses would add $60,000,000 to the U. S. revenues. To Treasury experts, this amount may not be piddling, but it definitely is not enough...
...Newark, Atlantic City. He spread his power over the newborn labor rackets. He built a $65,000 walled fortress in Florida on Palm Island, near Miami. He turned up at theatres, thick lips puckered, flanked by watchful bodyguards. Honest men patted him gingerly on the back, said of him, "Great fellow, Al." He sat with society in Miami, he had a ringside seat at the big fights. His levy fell on millions-every man paid through his liquor, entertainment, food, clothing. The take of his racket organization was estimated at $30,000,000 a year. He was a national sensation...
...however, Nazi diplomats were asked point-blank to reaffirm Germany's respect for Belgian and The Netherlands neutrality, they simply pointed to previous declarations, in which Germany had agreed to respect Belgian and Dutch neutrality provided the other side also respected it. That did not necessarily mean a great deal...
Last week, with Nazi troops and airplanes still massing just across the frontier, with the Nazi press barraging The Netherlands for not fighting harder against Great Britain's sea blockade, and with a possible Nazi threat about airplanes hanging over Queen Wilhelmina's head (see p. 17), The Netherlands High Command stepped on the starter of its defense engines, set them idling alertly though still strictly in neutral...
Winning the Ames competition is one of the great honors in the Law School...