Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John D. M. Hamilton tried to make the Spanish revolution an issue of the campaign by reviving his Dubinsky challenge. He issued a resounding "reply" to Nominee Roosevelt's Syracuse speech in which he plumped solidly for the Spanish Fascists by crying: "How long, Mr. Roosevelt, do you intend to affront the voters of America by retaining as one of your Presidential electors ... a man who rendered financial aid to Communists in Spain so that they might continue to horrify the civilized world with their murders of clergymen and their pillaging of churches...
...District Officers it remains abundantly true that the tent is mightier than the pen." Indian journalists, accustomed like English journalists to official hauteur and snubs, imperceptibly warmed to a new Viceroy who said: "Like the rest of us, newspaper men cannot be expected to make bricks without straw. . . . I intend to do my utmost to give them such assistance as properly...
...Kaufman, in collaboration this time with Miss Katharine Dayton, has proved himself something of a doctrinaire in "First Lady". The requirement, of course, was that the doctrine be silly enough to stir up amusement, if not enthusiasm, in American audiences. American audiences haven't pledged themselves, and don't intend to pledge themselves, to anything politically serious. So Mr. Kaufman declares over the interval of two jolly hours that wives are the only things that make the Washington merry-go-round go 'round. Not content with having put love in the White House along with a Mr. Wintergreen...
...fishing on the Great Lakes. His cause was still far from lost when he returned to shore last month. Then, against the advice of friends, he boldly announced: "Believing as I do that the most important matter confronting the nation is the re-election of President Roosevelt, I intend to support...
...customary in Rumania to tell the truth publicly about matters of high policy and everyone gave new Rumanian Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu full credit for lying like a diplomat when he announced: "I retain complete confidence in the statesmanship of France, and I intend to retain cultural relations with Rus-sia." It would surprise no Rumanian if King Carol should break off with Joseph Stalin the diplomatic relations established between Russia and Rumania by M. Titulescu. With Nazi influence mounting at Bucharest the Jewish mistress of the King, red-haired Magda Lupescu, found her position last week greatly altered...