Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been taught to work hard and gain from our acres everything they could possibly produce-to nurture our animals thriftily and gain from nature the last meed of God-given fertility. That is God's own command to us, as we can read in the Bible any time. But now they tell us that we raise too much. They tell us to leave some of our acres bare and watch them go to weed, and they come up and give us a little money and shoot our cattle on the ground, saying the cattle are starving and there...
...with one or two other Ministers to an early lunch. Suddenly a breathless secretary rushed in with a slip of paper which he handed to the little Chancellor and strapping Major Emil Fey, Commissar for Emergency Measures for Defense of the State. "Action against the Government is being prepared," read the paper. Almost before this warning could sink in five truckloads of men dressed as soldiers, Heimwehren ("Home Guards") and police rumbled up to the Ballhaus. So closely did these invaders resemble lawful forces of the State that the Ballhaus' sentries had not even challenged them. Jumping down from...
Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...
...delegates could read lips, and none could do so from a distance. In packed, tomb-still conference rooms delegates addressed each other with their hands, arms, heads.* Messages of greeting from President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman were spoken for the audience (hearers), wigwagged for the "optience" (seers). Senator Copeland and Mayor LaGuardia had the novel experience of addressing a crowd which neither heard nor heeded them but kept its eyes glued on a man who gave a running interpretation in manual alphabet-sign language...
What Mr. Kennedy said, however, was heartening to a far larger group of citizens than those who buy & sell the nation's securities. For the first time since March, 1933, an accredited New Dealer, whose speech had been carefully edited by his liberal colleagues and read by Presidential advisers, promised U.S. Business in so many words an opportunity "to live, make profits and grow." Excerpts from Mr. Kennedy's speech...