Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addressed all the People in depressed April, he said he proposed to "sail, not drift." But not until Congress had rigged the ship of state for him and cleared the decks by going home, was Skipper Roosevelt free to kick the tiller over and square away. Last week that moment came, and with vigorous word and action Franklin Roosevelt made perfectly clear what course he had laid out: through the narrow Strait of Recovery, boldly past the storm-ridden Primary Isles, to the snug harbor of Fall Elections...
...Lasser's call was opportune. When the South opposed the Wages-&-Hours bill without pay differentials, the Administration argued that the South would never get anywhere unless it paid its labor better. Now was the Administration's moment to make good on that view. With President Roosevelt's approval, and to Mr. Lasser's delight, Mr. Hopkins announced wage boosts for WPA workers in 13 Southern States. Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were...
...finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would be approved...
...last May, and Johns Hopkins requires retirement at that age. This year is his last as a regular member of the University faculty.* He is doing important work, however, and it has been understood that he would go on with it after retirement. At the last moment Dr. Wood persuaded Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman that since his labors would continue he should have a more active title than Professor Emeritus. So this week, when Dr. Wood appears at the Johns Hopkins commencement ceremonies in his formal academic regalia, Dr. Bowman is to announce his appointment as Research Professor...
...opposition's claim that Roosevelt is dictator-minded, Biographer Ludwig dismisses it thus: "[This opposition] cannot forgive him for the exhibition of despair which it vouchsafed in that moment [1933]; just as a proud woman never quite forgets her resentment against the man to whom she yielded in a moment of weakness...