Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital to treat nervous diseases of War veterans. Actually he was there to serve notice on the American Legion, meeting this week in Miami, that this is no time to revive its campaign for prepayment of the Bonus. Not once during his eight-minute talk did he mention the Bonus by name, but the President made it quite clear that the nation's destitute had first call on the nation's purse. Said he: "The veterans of the World War, today in the prime of life, are better off from the point of view of employment and annual...
Flushed of face, he exclaimed: "One feels a sense of hopelessness in listening to this report. . . . The resolution offered on war does not even mention the name of God. I am no extreme pacifist, but this looks like a straddling of both sides of the fence-just what might be expected from a body of the Anglican communion...
...prevent a slave rebellion. These "Atlantic Six" are now out on heavy ball. Because of Miss Burlak's deflant challenge to the existing order, and the support she is able to win from her audiences, she has acquired a fairly thorough knowledge of the United States penal system, and mention of her name produces a startling effect upon any member of a "radical squad...
...result of his Eastern junket, word was spread through the Democracy that genial Mr. Sinclair could be "handled." Told off to do the handling in California were Messrs. McAdoo and Creel. At the Democratic State Convention the party platform failed to mention the name EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help...
...Georgevitch is not an over-impressive figure to hold in line this racial conglomeration that is Jugoslavia. At the National Assembly he took the oath of office last week, listened to a great funeral oration from Premier Uzunovitch while Deputies roared out "Slavu Mu! Glory to Him!" at every mention of the dead King. Eyes kept turning from the pale Prince Regent to another figure behind him. grizzled, bristling General Pera Zivkovitch, by tradition the man who let the murderers of Alexander Obrenovitch into the royal palace, virtual dictator for three years under Alexander of Jugoslavia, the strongest, the most...