Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover scanned the 1931 Budget estimates. They did not make pleasant reading. They showed that the costs of government are continually mounting. Army, Navy, Postal Service and Public Works would cost $300,000,000 more than they had last year. The figures depressed the Hoover hope for tax reduction...
...Senator Caraway of Arkansas: "Prohibition suffered the worst blow by the Wickersham statement that it has ever received. ... I expect Wickersham to resign soon. . . . Personally I hope he resigns. . . . The usefulness of the Commission is destroyed if he remains at its head...
...Roosevelt explained that he had written to Mr. Wickersham, asked for some ideas. Responding in longhand from Bar Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value in preparation of your address." Gov. Roosevelt said he felt no restriction had been imposed against the letter's publication. In Washington Chairman Wickersham refused to see newsmen, to answer their questions of whether or not he intended his letter...
...Presidents [because] he stands for civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South, the great West and the great women of America* are for Prohibition and we shall have passed from the scene-I hope we shall not be forgotten-when Prohibition will still be here...
...officials were making a final report on last February's City Trust Co. failure (TIME, Feb. 25), their statements shared headlines with first investigation of Clarke Bros., another Manhattan banking firm which last fortnight closed its doors. First reports put the Clarke failure at $4,000,000, gave depositors hope of getting 25 cents on the dollar. Later it seemed likely that the failure was for $5,000,000. that 5 cents on the dollar was the probable settlement figure. Clarke Bros. (James, Philip, Hudson Clarke and John F. Bouker) announced that they would do everything they could...