Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while Governor Young and Mr. Fitts were dividing the Dry votes, the Wets turned solidly to Mayor Rolph, nominated him by 24,000 plurality, Governor Young finishing second. Old is North v. South political antagonism in California. Some observers even predict that this 'rivalry between San Francisco and Los Angeles will eventually overwhelm state pride and cause California to divide into two States. The sectional issue was raised by Southern California in behalf of Candidate Fitts. The Los Angeles Times on the eve of the primary blurted some comparisons: Registered votes. Northern California, 1,066,927; Southern...
They recalled that Newton Diehl Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, had said: "Why, I wouldn't hesitate a minute to make MacArthur Chief of Staff notwithstanding his youth. And I predict he will be. . . ." President Hoover last week commented: "There are several very eminent generals who rank General MacArthur, but none of them could serve more than a year and a half of the full term...
...also specifically foresaw Germany as leading in the industrial renaissance. Said he: "I have spent a few weeks touring in Germany and there I have seen much. ... I have been impressed with the thought that Germany is making a marvelous recovery from the financial effects of the War. . . . I predict that Germany is going to lead the procession in a general revival of busi ness throughout the world and it will not be long before its ... indefatigable industry will make the whole nation vibrate with prosperity. . . . The competition of Germany in the markets of the world is going to sorely...
More moderate critics regard the House Plan as a move which will, by various checks and balances, avoid either of these extremes. Little is safe to predict other than that the housing quarters will be newer than the present dormitories, the Yard will no longer be the center of domiciliary attraction, the restaurants on the Square will lose money, the Houses will supplant the classes in intra-mural rivalry, the members of the undergraduate body and the faculty will be in a more favorable position for the development of mutual understanding, and real estate prices on the Charles will rise...
...should Artist Kreisler stand on the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway in the guise of a beggar and play the "Caprice Viennois" I predict that he would assemble one of the biggest listening audiences ever to crowd this corner, until he was chased by Whalencops...