Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tart and determined as ever, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia marched into the White House to demand an answer to one question: Did the President, contrary to the assurances he had given Mr. Glass in January and in March, intend to insist on the passage of that section of the Administration's Banking Bill which would give the Federal Reserve System in fief to the Treasury Department? Mr. Roosevelt's closest friends in Congress had said the President would so insist. In the face of Mr. Glass's demand for an unequivocal answer, the President said...
...Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, disarmed as was Germany by post-War treaties, the Conference agreed to "inform" all European nations of their "desires" (i. e. to rearm). As a moral lesson to Germany, the Powers intend to grant to the three disarmed nations, after "friendly negotiation," the kind of rearmament they rebuke Hitler for having "seized...
Messrs. Fisher and Ley did not intend to break the New York law which forbids a corporation to practice medicine. William Howard Taft, a great lawyer just out of the White House, became a director of the Life Extension Institute and told his colleagues just how closely they could skirt the fence of Medicine. The American Medical Association made no noteworthy objections...
...blonde hair (which she wears in a modified Gibson Girl coiffure), determined to make her snubs crystal clear. Back to Washington over the press wires went her answer: "I have nothing but contempt for [Mrs. Roosevelt]. She is as presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious fact to sensible people is that Mrs. Roosevelt is the obvious type of cheap headline seeker...
Good taste has been too often in years past a blind to camouflage insidious indifference. Long enough has Williams been merely a 'gentleman's college,' for lack of any more vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation...