Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I respectfully protest against the article published in your issue of Jan. 20 under the title of "New CINCUS," by which you no doubt mean Commander-in-Chief, U. S. I do so because I think your dirty digs at Vice Admiral Hepburn are entirely uncalled for, misleading and spiteful. . . . Any fool can readily see the innuendo in the first paragraph of the article. Vice Admiral Hepburn does not owe his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet in any degree to the fact that the President and the Secretary of the Navy are old acquaintances...
...instruments of public power in the hands of the people's Government, which power is wholesome and appropriate, but in the hands of political puppets, of an economic autocracy, such power would provide shackles for the liberties of our people.' Now I interpret that to mean that 'if you are going to have an autocrat-take me! But be very careful about the other fellow...
Significance. Day after Al Smith's speech. Washington enjoyed a guessing game: What did he mean when he said that he would probably "take a walk" when the next Democratic Convention endorses the New Deal? Would he turn his back on politics and retire until the New Deal blew over? Would he actively attack sew Dealers in the campaign? Would he support a ticket of anti-New Deal Democrats...
...turns are mean and the grade is steep and fast. A peculiarity of this trail is that the hardest part is at the bottom, when the racers are all tired...
...much. And it did go very swift and I did soon lose myself in seventeenth century most completely. Indeed, I did imagine many musketeers in the audience and the lady aside me was now dressed in many silks and lace and airs; but the lord still did seem a mean looker. And I was glad at my heart to see Sir Pepys (bless our souls!) who doth see the show for the first time and did laugh much at the lines...