Word: moods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, in Hyde Park, the President held a press conference. Never had reporters seen Franklin Roosevelt in such a mood of passive defeatism. Though not knocked out, he appeared definitely stunned by what he had taken. Only flash of his old self was a sidelong crack to the effect that the Senate, in leaving Neutrality up in the air, causing "uncertainty" (for which he has so often been blamed) and "gambling" against war abroad, had bud-nipped a nice little boom.* > The Hatch bill effectually demolished the national Roosevelt political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine...
...Marshal Göring, but scarcely had he left before the plan-and garbled versions of it-had leaked out all over the world, much to the Secretary's annoyance and embarrassment. Early this week a sizable Parliamentary storm was coming up, and the British public, in no mood for further appeasement, was definitely angry...
...after trading punches with the New Deal, appeared to have as much fight left in him as his New Deal opponent. Fortnight ago when it gave the round to Lilienthal by authorizing an issue of bonds for the purchase of Tennessee Electric Power.* Congress-in much the same truculent mood as last week-carefully earmarked the money in the bill, thus ending the days of blank checks for TVA. Moreover, in announcing the purchase Mr. Lilienthal said it would complete TVA's purchasing-more or less implying the TVA was ready to call quits and not fight utilities outside...
...Road To Empire Historian Pratt, in his most coaxing mood, adds 346 more pages to the ten thousand books on Napoleon. This one retells the Corsican's career from corporal to coup d'état. Since the story of Napoleon Bonaparte is to history what Ulysses and Faust are to myth, pettifogging historians have had hard work making it dull reading. Sometimes Author Pratt labors harder than he needs to keep it lively. But when he lets the legend tell itself, adding only his "worm's-eye view" (sidelights from old memoirs, letters, newssheets), he rivets readers...
...demand that the Baltic States also be guaranteed against a change of internal regime, i. e. Nazification. If the pact reports proved true and the Anglo-Russian Pact is at last to be signed, it could mean just one thing: this time Britain is in a fighting mood...