Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remark . . . that I have no doubt both Mr. Benton and Mr. Calhoun apprehend that I may be a candidate for reelection, for which there is not the slightest foundation My mind has been made up from the time I accepted the Baltimore nomination, and is still so, to serve but one term and not to be a candidate for reelection...
...Senate, Franklin Roosevelt said: Stay here. Since then wise, weary Charlie McNary has constantly counseled with the President, breakfasts at the White House sometimes thrice a week, always entering from the Treasury side to dodge reporters. To the President Charles McNary has given many pieces of his mind, but only one piece has leaked out. Over the scrambled eggs one day Mr. Roosevelt grumbled about the pressure on him to say what he will do next convention time. Said Mr. McNary: "This is your baby, Mr. President. Tell 'em to go to hell...
...been Mr. Hoover's habit to turn on the light and read for an hour or two-reading methodically through all the works on a particular period in the history of Egypt, all the volumes of Hakluyt's Voyages-as if he hoped to calm his mind with facts. Back at Stanford he prowled through the massive accumulation of facts in the Hoover War Library-the extraordinary collection then stored away in the basement of the Stanford library, with 175,000 books and pamphlets on World War I, the secret files of the German Intelligence Service, the world...
...sympathy for those who honestly search human experience and human thought for some easy way out, where human selfishness has no opportunities, where freedom requires no safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not without value and one could join in them with satisfaction but for the mind troubled by recollection of human frailty, the painful human advance through history, the long road which humanity still has to travel to economic and social perfections...
...mother accused of starving her children so she could buy herself new dresses, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio last week called the whole thing a lie, invited the gossips to mind their own business...