Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good omen of a longer, rougher role. Mrs. L. C. Jacks...
...Even before President Roosevelt turned away from the 'Little Steel' strikers, Lewis knew that public office-the Presidency in particular -cannot at this stage of American affairs be the unconditioned property of labor. Lewis is the chief spokesman of labor; in the White House he could no longer be that. While a labor President, backed by a majority in Congress, could make great contributions toward winning security for labor's millions, a President dependent on the support of other strata of the population would have to heed various pressures. To be the leader of an aggressive, growing...
...year-old kid in Los Angeles," mused Mr. Honeycombe. "She said: 'You'll regret the day you left for Spain.' She was right! The whole Republican line -those that were left of us-just cracked and ran. . . . This war cannot last much longer. . . . That man Franco has everything! The Spaniards don't want to fight . . . and those Americans that are left want to go home...
...spoke for two hours in defense of his 80-word bill to give the Popular Front Cabinet totalitarian powers. "There is nothing to prevent us from profiting by certain experiences of the totalitarian regimes," observed this persuasive Socialist. "The German example is eloquent in this respect. The democracies cannot longer remain in a state of inferiority compared with the totalitarian countries...
...business in or that they had not acquired through mortgage foreclosures-and these they had to get rid of again within five years. Most other States followed New York. But between 1921 and 1926 when there was a shortage of houses in the U. S. and real estate no longer seemed a poor investment, New York added an amendment: Insurance companies could buy land if they immediately put up buildings on it, if all their real-estate holdings did not amount to more than 10% of their assets, if the rent they charged was not more than $9 a month...