Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individualistic President has often been rumored before. Now that it was definitely scheduled it served to symbolize as dramatically as possible the conciliatory feelings toward U. S. Business which the President expressed in his Fireside Chat last fortnight. It also served to launch the U. S. press on a guessing game. Best guess as to why Gracie Hall Roosevelt-a onetime Comptroller of Detroit, who now spends most of his time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary than to summon him directly. Having deduced...
...been trying to get the Neutrality Act repealed, at least as it affects Spain, and who had attended a dinner party of consequential U. S. liberals and newspaper bigwigs at the Soviet Embassy earlier in the week, called at the White House before introducing his resolution. First guess was, therefore, that Franklin Roosevelt had inspired or at least approved his action as a means of justifying a new blast at totalitarian foreign policies in general...
...First guess was at least partly wrong. The Scott Resolution did not force the State Department to lay down its face cards-which it may, nonetheless, do in the near future. On the other hand, something entirely different prompted Franklin Roosevelt to pick up some of his. Acting Secretary of State last week was Mr. Roosevelt's good friend Sumner Welles, who last summer met and greatly admired England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week, according to the most reliable reports, Mr. Chamberlain strongly urged his new friend, in the absence of canny Secretary Hull, to persuade...
...would be split between Messrs. Wilcox, Sholtz and Pepper, opinions were more varied. In a Florida primary, the winning candidate must poll as many votes as all his opponents put together or face a runoff. Best guess appeared to be that Pepper would be high man in the first primary, with Sholtz and Wilcox running neck and neck for second place. If, as is likely, none of the three has the requisite majority, Florida voters will not know for sure who will succeed Claude Pepper until the runoff election...
...sometimes sings in nightclubs and is the daughter of Oilman James Andrew Moffett, filed a bankruptcy petition in Manhattan. Listing liabilities of $9,961 and assets of $1,800 (including two Sealyham dogs valued at $200), she blamed her financial distress on a spending spree. Said she: "I guess I was too fond of buying clothes...