Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then for a moment the President's eyes dwelt in kindly fashion on a family group, spry, fox-bearded Henry Morgenthau Sr., aged 77, standing with his wife, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Old "Uncle Henry" was bursting with pride because his son was being honored even more greatly than he himself had been honored two decades before when another Democratic President had named him Ambassador to Constantinople. From happy "Uncle Henry" the presidential eye passed on and came to rest on little wizened Mr. Woodin...
...secret was it that Dr. Sprague was considering resigning. The moment came when Pupil Morgenthau, as Acting Secretary of the Treasury, decided there was room for only one school of thought, announced rigorous censorship of Treasury news, forbade government officials direct contact with the Press. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague forthwith called newsmen together, issued his resignation. Said he, in a letter to the President...
...Chamber of Deputies has never pleased me!" II Duce exuberantly told the Council which pleases him at the moment very much. "When the Fascist regime was created we buried political liberalism.* Today we bury economic liberalism...
...Mongolian Gobi, dimly saw a small man squatting like a monkey by his bed, staring into his face. Dr. Chapman swore, lunged at the intruder. The man ducked back, fled out on a balcony. Dauntless Dr. Chapman leaped after him, tackled him on the fire-escape. After a moment's scuffle, the intruder kicked away, darted down to freedom. "I am accustomed to years of sleeping in camp and I can feel the presence of anybody." explained Dr. Chapman. "When I awoke the fellow's head was only a foot and a half from my own. He could...
...What the President needs at this moment, when he is assailed on all side by inflationists, is fair, honest, and constructive criticism from thoughts people. There are enough men of its type in his own party and they should he called upon to criticize and to aid it the monetary difficulties. The President already has too much to do. He will soon become a Mussolini, for he is now virtually his own foreign minister, secretary of labor, secretary of commerce, and secretary of war. To alleviate this situation there should be a change in personnel. Men of the type...