Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventual result remained anyone's guess. The almost identical situation in San Francisco two years ago was a tense calm for two months before the tornado of the general strike. Last week, many a Russian Hill housewife began stocking canned food in readiness for another general strike, but Trouble-Shooters McGrady and Hamlet loudly proclaimed that negotiations would yet succeed. President Roosevelt kept mum, but Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins left a train at Buffalo to telephone a trite request for more negotiation. The unions agreed. The shipowners refused...
West Virginia doesn't fare so well in your paper, I guess. Not one of the largest States but one of the most beautiful; one of great historical background and one of many large industries. At Charleston we have as fine a Capitol Building as there is in the country. It is surpassed by none. We have as good a State Administration and as great an Executive as any of the larger States. In our Governor we have gone forward by leaps & bounds and have led most of the States with our school system, fair and just tax program...
...hecklers he handled deftly, but now & then, even in rural regions where he met the warmest welcome, he failed to stir a crowd to the enthusiasm it was ready to give. Then he would abandon his troublesome notes and drop in a remark which always got response: "I guess you folks are down here to look me over. That goes both ways. I'm glad to look you over, too." But most successful moment in every rear platform audience was when, his talking done, he grinned his natural grin, leaned down to double-handshake all comers...
...voice when he first spoke there was perhaps a hint of suspicion of this sort, but most U. S. Treasury officials soon calmed down to a more comfortable theory. After all the Moscow comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European economists had guessed-not knowing of the super-secret parleys-that once the franc sank the British would sink their pound even lower to retain .its competitive advantage in world trade. It was perfectly believable that...
...Yanks are out in front, but nobody can predict when and if they'll win. They can only guess...