Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been, they declared, the "best," the "frankest," the "most helpful," the "most important" conference they had ever had with the President, and they were bursting with the reason: this time they had talked back to Franklin Roosevelt, had spoken their minds with heat and firmness against the prospect of unpopular new taxes, for real economy (see p. 16). It was not yet mutiny, but it was the strongest evidence to date of the growing restlessness which close observers have discerned in the New Deal officers' mess for weeks (TIME. April 19), indicating that the long subservience of, Legislative...
...prospect of economy rested chiefly on Franklin Roosevelt's intention of keeping Congressmen from voting funds for new schemes, on the unanimous feeling of such legislative leaders as Vice President Garner, Senators Byrnes and Harrison, Representatives Doughton, Rayburn and Speaker Bankhead, that the Budget must be balanced and new taxes not imposed. But the prospect of economy was not for any material reduction in expenses. It was for holding expenses at about present levels...
...alteration of empty rooms in a wing of the legal building has been voted upon by the faculty in adopting the report of the curriculum committee. There was no immediate prospect of funds sufficient for painting and furnishing the proposed common rooms, said Morgan, although graduates had expressed their enthusiasm for the project...
...tourists, few minutes before, had joked gaily at the prospect of seeing a public execution of Chinese drug peddlers, had had to be restrained by police from taking photographs because "China must not be ashamed." But the six executions turned many a tourist pale & sick. With drawn faces they climbed into their cars, drove...
...defiance of his National Labor Relations Act, thus implying that it was up to the Supreme Court to resolve the Labor crisis by a decision on the Act. Not one of the Senate's Sit-Down critics had risen to his challenge. So far as the unpleasant prospect of Senate action on that red-hot issue was concerned, the Sit-Down seemed safely pigeonholed when suddenly South Carolina's James F. Byrnes stood up to propose an amendment to the Guffey bill...