Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany's political focus next shifted to Albany where the Democratic State Convention is being held this week. In prospect was a hot fight between Governor Roosevelt backing Herbert Lehman for the gubernatorial nomination and Tammany supporting Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thachcr. Brooding over the confused scene was Alfred Emanuel Smith. Citizen Smith favored the Lehman nomination but he was bound by pledges of non-interference with Tammany's wishes which he had given at the Chicago convention. That the G. 0. P. would nominate William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan?Irish. Roman Catholic, an American Legionary ?for Governor...
...economic situation of 1932 necessitated combining men's and women's events. With only one year of real competition behind them, most feminine pilots were more dismayed than pleased at the prospect...
With election day less than six weeks off, the Democratic presidential campaign bowled into October more smoothly than any since 1916. The prospect of party victory, rarely brighter, supplied most of the motive power. Day after day on his western tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with speeches widely acclaimed as making sense, held the front pages of the nation. Close beside him at every turn could be seen the rosy bald spot of his astute manager, National Chairman James Aloysius Farley whose purpose, like that of a good boxer, is to keep the Republicans constantly on the defensive, force the fighting...
There is, of course, no prospect of Indian democracy, even in the sense that Canada is democratic and mistress of herself under the Crown. When Indians vote under a new Constitution which is being slowly evolved, their elected representatives will still be subordinate to the London Parliament?unless Mother India wins another and far greater victory than Mahatma Gandhi won last week...
...Leningrad this system has already been applied to several streets. Last year buildings on both sides of the Nevski Prospect (No. 1 Tsarist boulevard) were painted. The former palace of Grand Duke Dmitri* was daubed brilliant red with glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...