Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That morning some 1,500 planes were taxied to the take-off lines at all the Corps's major fields-Virginia's Langley, Long Island's Mitchel, Michigan's Selfridge,* Louisiana's Barksdale, Alabama's Maxwell, Texas' Randolph, Kelly, Brooks and Duncan, Illinois's Chanute and Scott, Colorado's Lowry, Washington's Fort Lewis, California's March and Hamilton. At a radio signal from President Roosevelt in the White House, the planes at all these fields roared forward, swept aloft, joined each other in droning, hammering formations, swung...
Offshore from Santa Monica and Long Beach certain long, low rods of red light glowing steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might...
...huge 242-lb. frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months' rule, saying: "I shall probably fool around some in the oil business." Indicted with him was Seymour Weiss, who polished Huey's manners, also inherited one-third...
...designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with a radical policy of reform. Furthermore, they must work...
...days later Mr. Chamberlain made it clear that he now knew it. He began a long answer to Laborite Philip Noel Baker with an ironic, Alice-in-Wonderland account of his difficulties in debate, said he had trouble answering Mr. Noel Baker because "he is always trying to push the Government to go a little further in its statements than I think it ought to go, and it puts me in the position, in refusing to put my foot on unsound ground, that I seem to be willing to go less far than actually...