Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mr. Lewis holds the balance of power in Pennsylvania, the ticket was temporarily shelved. Adding to the confusion is the fact that John L. Lewis is toying with the idea of backing Republican Gifford Pinchot for Governor, running Miner Kennedy for Senator...
Ever since he became Prime Minister, businesslike Neville Chamberlain has shown he meant to clean up what he considers the mess his predecessor Stanley-Baldwin made of British foreign policy. It was Stanley Baldwin's idea in 1935 to equip Great Britain in effect with two foreign secretaries: 1) a popular young idealist who could win pacifist votes for the Conservative Party; and 2) a veteran statesman who could unobtrusively do such dirty work in foreign policy as might be necessary. He appointed handsome young Anthony Eden to the completely new office of Secretary for League of Nations Affairs...
...Chamberlain finally told the House straight out that Mussolini thought the retention of Eden as Foreign Secretary had meant that Britain "was trying to lull the Italians into inactivity while Britain completed her rearmament and was in a position to take revenge for Ethiopia. That idea is fantastic and never entered our heads, but it is the idea held in Rome...
...annual Seniors class farce, sub-titled "class election," is again taking place. The Senior council has appointed a nominating committee which in return has re-nominated the Senior council for all the class marshalships. The nominations for minor offices were made not with the idea of picking the best men for the offices, but, as one member of the senior council put it, men were selected who could "get the votes.' In other words, the nominating committee's ideas as tow ho could get the votes seem to be the controlling factor in this election. Therefore, why not dispense with...
...idea of sending journalists to school does not work out in practice, the plan will be discarded as unpractical. Only after the approval of many journalists, editors, and publishers was the plan set in operation...