Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeterred by such comments, the President last week continued his non-partisan activities which included: ¶ The ostentatious summoning to Washington of his Congressional finance heads to announce that no new taxes were in prospect. ¶ A trip by rail to Johnstown, in pivotal Pennsylvania, where he motored for two hours through last spring's flood regions, was cheered everywhere by great throngs, declared, "The Federal Government, so long as I have anything to do with it, is going to cooperate ... in taking every possible measure to prevent floods in the future...
Stocky, round-faced President-elect Wildman, 47, is a loyal DePauw alumnus (Class of 1913), is married to a DePauw alumna, has a twelve-year-old daughter who is a prime DePauw prospect. Fortified by these considerations and by the fact that abandoned Methodist preaching for Wildman long teaching, since De-Pauwites hoped that, even though he is eligible for a bishopric, he will turn it down should one be offered...
...started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch which burned only two minutes. Faced with the absurd prospect of continuing the Torch Relay without a torch, he scrambled quickly into an automobile, rode on to the next relay point. Re-lit, the flame crossed the Hungarian border at 6 a. m., reached Budapest in the evening. Next day, its progress through Austria was the occasion for a great...
...Classic, feature race of the 30-day meeting at the Midwest's greatest race track. Purse for the eighth running of the Classic was $35,000. That the Arlington Classic will eventually be worth $100,000 and the most celebrated horse race in the world was the proud prospect offered to Chicago last week by the Arlington Park Jockey Club's Founder John Daniel Hertz. Discussing the track's policy and progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid all but $700,000 of the $5,000,000 debt it incurred seven years...
Although supplementary estimates for Britain's great rearmament scramble were issued only a few weeks ago, sensational further supplementary estimates were issued last week. These rocketed the 1936 rearmament bill to $940,000,000 with a further "rearmament loan" in prospect. To questions by nervous M. P.'s as to how quickly the Navy can act, Sir Samuel replied that very shortly the Admiralty will be able to announce that more than half its capital ships are being kept ready for immediate action...