Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-bitten crew that hung around the Alaskan gold camps a generation ago, none was more celebrated than "Sweet Marie'' Schmidt. She did not pretend to be in the same class with Mollie Walsh, the Wonder Girl of White Pass Trail, who ran a beanery and was sworn to be as morally clean as the snow that fell on her tent. Sweet Marie was a dance hall girl and prettier than most. When she lifted her plaintive voice in song, she could coax more nuggets out of sourdoughs in one night than Deadeye Olga, Yukon Lucy or Moosehide...
...sent them. One was Senator Pittman's Nevada colleague, independent Patrick Aloysius McCarran. Others were Idaho's Borah, Montana's Wheeler, Oklahoma's Thomas, Louisiana's Long. It was a foregone conclusion, however, that Congress would accept the President's offering and pretend to like it. Meantime interested persons made an inventory of the President's second casket: Sop No. 1. The U. S. will increase the amount of silver in its monetary stocks until the proportion reaches 25% silver, 75% gold. This is, however, merely a declaration of policy, an "ultimate objec...
...Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority: "If the private utilities are unable or unwilling to clean the slate, they will find it very difficult to convince investors to risk further capital in this essential business. . . . There is no basis for the hysterical cries of those who see, or pretend to see disaster ahead for the electric industry. Can it be that they are deliberately trying to depress the prices of sound senior securities, so that they can be bought in at hysteria prices...
...Guns White Calf, was even greater. Two Guns was but a papoose when his father was scalping his neighbors. Because of his father's friendship with the Government, Two Guns was educated at Fort Shaw Indian School, learned perfect English. Later he found it paid better to pretend ignorance of the language and go around with an interpreter. Two Guns made friends with James Jerome Hill's son Louis, now director of Great Northern. The grateful Great Northern hired Two Guns, along with such of his compatriots as Owen Heavy Breast, George Bull Child and Mike Short...
...Austria ever since the World War and will continue to do so. The Hungarians are a strong people, who merit and will be accorded a better destiny. Our relations with Jugoslavia are normal; that is to say, diplomatically correct, but nothing more. Relations with France have improved generally. "To pretend to eternally keep a nation like Germany disarmed is pure illusion, unless one has the objective of preventing by force of arms Germany's eventual rearmament. This game has a supreme stake-the lives of millions of men and the destiny of Europe...