Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going into politics? I am not a politician and I am not for the New Deal as it stands today...
...photography. Hired by Ransom Eli Olds in 1901, he made all the pictures for the first Olds catalog. As Secretary of Commerce under Herbert Hoover, his premature predictions of Depression's end surprised automobile associates who had long admired him as an able man of business. But Politician Chapin was merely upholding the traditions of his office by breathing optimisms of which Automan Chapin would never have been guilty...
Number (1) objective fulfills the age-old cry for more contact of University professors in the world outside their academic cloister. Business men, politician, radicals, and Hearst have all at one time or another cried for it. This particular application of the idea, as Mark Twain said of always doing right, "will gratify some, and astonish the rest...
...which dawns today," concluded Mr. King, a politician of the grand old school, "we take up at once, as our supreme task, the endeavor to end poverty in the midst of plenty; starvation and unnecessary suffering in a land of abundance; discontent and distress in a country more blessed by Providence than any other on the face of the globe, and to gain for individual lives, and for the nation as a whole, that 'health and peace and sweet content' which is the rightful heritage...
Though the lira is a managed currency, II Duce has kept it on his technical gold standard through eight long years of rumors that he was bluffing and might be expected to devalue any day. To frosty bankers it must eternally seem like bluffing when a fire-eating politician shouts at the top of his lungs, screams in headlines and has cut into a monument at Pesaro: "We will defend the lira to the last breath, to the last drop of blood...