Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among the 800 guests at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation banquet were surviving members of the Wilson official family. For them, there has been small welcome at the New Deal fireside. Newton Diehl Baker was practicing law in Cleveland. Carter Glass was busy holding his tongue, lest in an irrepressible moment it cry out against an Administration in which he has little confidence. John William Davis was playing holiday golf in Charleston, S. C. The only Wilsonite who had been given a high post in the new Administration, Josephus Daniels, was far away at his Embassy in Mexico City...
...course of a 12,000-word review of world affairs, Orator Litvinoff devoted 3,000 words to the Japanese menace, 1,500 words to the German. Both these nations, he seemed to think, might attack Soviet Russia without warning at almost any moment...
...remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member of an unromantic generation, his typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene's awkward moment. Thus he remains true to the old flag after all. For anyone who likes travel books and for many who do not, Brazilian Adventure will be a refreshingly new departure. Author Fleming admits in his foreword that his book differs "from most books about expeditions . . . also from most books about...
Some have said that the N. R. A. was unconstitutional, and this may well be so, although the charge is vitiated by the fact that the Supreme Court can make it constitutional in a moment. But others have said that the N. R. A. was unenforceable, and this is the real point. The attempt to enforce it may be an interesting one, and may serve to clarify to our people the issues which the machine has created. But that attempt will mean a degree of control that converges, in practice, with ownership. The end is a great one, but parliamentarism...
...should be." Mr. Pecora: Don't you think that your suggestions for a dividend rate for the units were looked upon as an order from the throne? Mr. Lord: I assumed that the earnings of the units were sufficient to meet the dividends. Bills Payable: "None," Second embarrassing moment for Mr. Lord came when Senator Couzens, who in Detroit is socially acquainted with him, questioned him about the statements of the Group's banks, showing that none of them had any bills payable at the close of 1930. "Was that a fact." demanded Mr. Couzens, "that your banks...