Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command the Senate sat for twelve-hour stretches. Oldsters could recall nothing to match the Roosevelt drive for adjournment. But at the last moment the President made a tactical error which cost him his whole week's work. Submitted to Congress at 8 o'clock Saturday night was an executive order for minor Government reorganizations which the President estimated would save $25,000,000 per year. The Bureaus of Immigration and Naturalization...
...with a time in which life revolts against hardships and the gains of the past are swept away for forces of despair. . . . How dark are the depths of misery and unsettlement which have still to be gone through? No one who has surveyed the facts . . . can doubt for a moment . . . that a purely national economic policy in this modern world is one which, by impoverishing other nations, impoverishes itself at the expense of others. . . . Nationalism in economics is the deathknell of ... prosperity...
...bear den. They are joined by a monkey, a little boy lost, and in the nick of time the villain. The role of the latter is promptly and gratifyingly usurped by a midnight sortie of lions and tigers from their cages. The picture also begins to escape at this moment. For the rescue of both one is admiringly grateful to Rajah, the bull elephant...
...series a economic earthquakes", A. A. Berle, Jr. '12, a member of President Roosevelt's "brain trust", told an audience at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Business School on Saturday. "It will be said in years to come that an administration came into office at the precise moment when a crisis almost unparalleled in modern history had reached its peak. It will be pointed out that whenever such a crisis has occurred elsewhere in the world, its swift sequel has been a revolution...
...resuscitate with a pulmotor a small boy who had been pulled out of the Lechmere Canal some minutes before were stopped by the Chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, Casey. According to the testimony of the fireman who was working on the boy, Casey appeared just at the moment when there was every chance the boy might live, and, without consulting a doctor, ordered the squad to stop wasting their oxygen on a case where the victim was obviously dead...