Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boom left us with tremendously increased housing facilities and expanded facilities of all kinds, including a heritage of carpetbagging politicians whom we have unfortunately not as yet assimilated or perhaps canned...
...property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress as England's "Dole" receivers. If left to ourselves I really believe we can work out these problems. But every worker amongst us is soon discouraged at seeing a truckload of five husky young men drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their transportation hunt...
President Hoover took his place at the head of the U-table. Microphones were removed from the table while photographers took pictures. Before radio men could replace the microphones, President Hoover rose, began hurriedly reading his speech held in his left hand. This mishap prevented a broadcast of his words. Suddenly the East Room air began to rumble with sound as distracted radio announcers substituted for the President, read his speech to their audiences. President Hoover's low voice was swallowed up in the vocal confusion...
...gation of the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, creature of his own administration (see col. 1). Observers studied him sharply for changes, found that he talked more freely, smiled more benignly, looked a little less plump, a little less wrinkled about the eyes than when he had left the White House. If he had any regrets on revisiting the scenes of his political triumphs' he muffled them under a flow of small-bore conversation...
Great Britain and the United States henceforth are not to compete in armament as political opponents, but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. -HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest the U. S. and the Empire might soon "compete in armament as political oppo-nents." Of course no one feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME...