Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's people in their freedom to be diverse and perverse and confused were afraid of their confusion. In their unease they perforce seized upon familiar precepts and standards whereby to judge themselves and their President. Precepts frequently stated, standards often used may become cliches. Crisis cliches are as likely as any others to be hardily true, are just as likely to be tired symbols of what once was truth. The people with their many voices and no single voice have tried and tested two crises cliches...
...principle oppose third terms for their Presidents is a cliche so long accepted as to be a maxim, although it has never been tested by ballot. It now has a special meaning: a candidate for a second reelection, potential or declared, cannot be a good President in crisis; he may even use the crisis to forward his ambitions...
Sept. 2: "It is hard to see how he can sleep at night and think of the people in many nations whom he may send to their deaths...
...Pittman's bill decreed: 1) When the President or Congress finds a state of war existing abroad, the President shall (i. e., must) name the belligerents. 2) After issuance of such a proclamation, no American vessel may carry passengers or goods to any named belligerents. 3) No goods of any sort may be shipped to belligerents until all rights, title and interest have been transferred abroad. 4) The President shall then proclaim combat areas, which no citizen or U. S. vessel may enter. 5) No U. S. citizen may travel on any belligerent's vessel...
...Communist Party," wrote Mr. Hicks in the weekly New Republic, "have tried to appear omniscient, and they have succeeded in being ridiculous. They have clutched at straws, juggled sophistries, shut their eyes to facts. . . . They have shown that they are strong in faith-which the future mayor may not justify-and weak invitelligence...