Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Politics interest me greatly, continued Hull, as he robed himself in a big checked, black and white suit. "Guess I am a combination of efficiency worshipper and here-worshipper. For this reason, Herbert Hoover is a kind of passion with me. Roosevelt spells chaos for America. However, oven the candidates can stand a sincere, hearty laugh...
...took this tack: The 1929 crash and subsequent Depression hit the U. S. first, did not. as Republicans claim, come from abroad. The economic collapse developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around to budget balancing. Declared Democrat Garner...
...motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first guess was that a new medicine show had come to town were not entirely wrong. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, 47, nostrum peddler, was stumping every county in the State, conducting his independent gubernatorial campaign...
Newshawks asked Hunter Wright if his lionesses were real. "Well," said he, "they look like lions, and they roar like lions, and they eat like lions. I guess they're just lions...
...Felts, drubbed the Texas Aggies. 26 to 14. Pop Warner's new Stanford team used a bewildering collection of reverses, double-reverses, spinners, laterals and forwards to muddle Oregon State in one of the longest games on Pacific Coast Conference record. 27 to o. It was too early to guess what Princeton's new coach, Herbert Orrin Crisler, can do with the remnants of the team whose record last season was the sorriest in Princeton history, but his start?22 to 0 against slow but stubborn Amherst? was a good day for two seasoned backs. Jack James and Millard Draudt...