Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addressing the 150th anniversary session of Congress, he had stated his credo: "We are here not as masters but as servants . . . We serve our hour by unremitting devotion to the principles which have given our Government both stability and capacity for orderly progress in a world of turmoil and revolutionary upheavals." Last week, having fulfilled his faithful servant's role, Charles Evans Hughes, 86, died...
Virginia received Henry Wallace in sullen silence. State authorities had ducked the segregation issue by decreeing that the Wallace gatherings were "private parties," to which the state segregation law does not apply. No bands turned out, no crowds gathered to watch his progress. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's John Chabot Smith: "Mr. Wallace's movements in Virginia had something of the eerie quality of an old-fashioned silent movie in a theater without a piano player...
...other hand, we think time is working for us, because in a year or two we can hope to have made progress toward a stable Western Europe and toward a U.S.-Western European rearmament...
...distant and implausible. The U.S., fighting Spain, was young, uncoordinated and callow. Queen Victoria ruled Britannia, and Britannia ruled the waves. Young ladies learned the simple difference between right & wrong along with embroidery and piano playing. A new century was just around the corner, bright with the promise of Progress...
...Tacho") Somoza. Said Prío: "The anachronistic presence of dictators on our continent retards our progress...