Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduced a resolution calling for a joint House & Senate investigation as Mr. Morgan proposed. George Norris insisted that the investigation be kept out of Congress, referred to the Federal Trade Commission, but FTC members gave him scant encouragement. To the Senate's anti-Administration bloc, even the remotest prospect of uncovering a Roosevelt Teapot Dome was so exciting that Utah's Democratic King and New Hampshire's Republican Bridges hastened to introduce a resolution calling for a Senate committee investigation of TVA on 23 "charges." Among the 23: wasting public funds, suppression of audits, interference in neighboring...
...beginning of Lent last week reminded Christians throughout the world of the last days on earth of the Prince of Peace, churchmen were everywhere considering with renewed soberness the tenuous prospect of peace on earth. Though many Protestant clergymen are out & out pacifists, most Catholics have been restrained on that subject. Newsworthy was it, therefore, when an eminent Catholic divine opened Lent with a ringing pastoral letter on the subject of peace. He was the Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, the forceful, ruddy Dominican who for 13 years has been Archbishop of Cincinnati. He wrote...
Looking very much better than last year is John Senior, the leader in the struggle for the four oar. Walt Kernan, now stroking the seconds may come in here and Bill Rowe can then take Kernan's Jayvees. Phil Dean is a rather un-likely prospect for this opening...
Since the Board temporarily cut off funds for Illinois last year on far less flagrant provocation, that was the prospect which at week's end disturbed many a worthy old Oklahoman...
More significant still are probably his comments on the government careers of those who have gone through college training. Party work in Parliament (regardless of the special label) still holds a strong attraction, while the "clever and cautious people" and those responsive to the prospect of administration activity prefer the civil service. For his American friends Mr. Walton suggests, however, that it "took centuries" to build the British public service tradition...