Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these traditions and ties and economic loyalties must be overcome if the United States is to develop as she has so far. South America represents a gold-mine for American interests, and this mine has scarcely been tapped. Now, with war looming on the European horizon, with England's "Royal salesman" embroiled in a messy scandal and with internecine strife besetting Japan, the stage is set for an immediate American entry into the Pan-American economic scene. The present policy of reciprocal trade agreements has not only brought a great measure of prosperity to formerly impoverished South-American states...
Today he has the reward of patience, of self-discipline and of that kind of shrewdness which sometimes is inherent in very simple men. Peace and trade are his sole philosophy and at Buenos Aires his single track, so far as man can see, goes on to that horizon...
Then the Indianapolis cast off, the guns of Fort Moultrie fired a Presidential salute and Franklin Roosevelt disappeared hull down over the public horizon. Through daylight and darkness he ploughed ahead at 25 knots for three whole days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother...
Just how long the authorities of the House will allow this rope to decorate the cherished tower is doubtful. For what the aerial lacks in beauty, is compensated for by the stark realism with which it strikes out against the horizon...
...name has loomed upon the horizon as a possible choice in Professor James Grafton Rogers of the Yale Law School who has also been mentioned as successor to President Angell upon his approaching resignation...