Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt as a promise-breaker, an incipient dictator, an "ineffective and dangerous man to have in the White House" because he was dominated by his emotions and his prime emotional drive was "an inordinate desire for popularity." Republicans gobbled up 400,000 copies of this booklet...
...there is a world of difference between a trickle of arms sent furtively to Spain and open rivalry that would flood the country with war material. . . . Dismay in London tonight." Amid feverish excitement British Broadcasting Co. put on the air that Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, as Acting Prime Minister, had just promised Labor Party leaders that Britain would join Russia in considering herself no longer bound by the Non-intervention Pact if the charges that it had been violated were proved. This last week was the high point of European tension-from which things fell like plummets...
...harshest blow at the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin thus far, Punch last fortnight cartooned the fact that the Prime Minister is supposed to favor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as his successor in a manner calculated to make squeamish Britons retch. With a beaming expression on his round face, Mr. Baldwin is shown thrusting the juicy mouthpiece of his famed old pipe under the beaknose of Mr. Chamberlain whose eyes bulge with revulsion...
Foundation. Then up rose Brown's Vice President James Pickwell Adams to make an announcement of prime importance to all present. That afternoon, said Mr. Adams, the university corporation had accepted the petition for retirement of 69-year-old President Clarence Augustus Barbour, chosen his successor. He was Henry Merritt Wriston, who simultaneously announced his resignation as President of Lawrence College in Appleton...
Announcing the death of Life after a valiant fight, Mr. Maxwell declared: "We cannot claim, like Mr. Tunney, that we resigned our championship undefeated in our prime. But at least we hope to retire gracefully from a world still friendly...