Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around among the Varsity football coaches or players these days, you are more than likely to hear on all sides the remark, "the team we are most afraid of is Brown...
With that remark Mr. Morgenthau hit two nails upon the head: 1) The nervousness of people with money had just produced the sharpest break in the stock-market since last spring, commodity prices were fluttering, and throughout the nation businessmen were absorbed with one question-how would a major European war affect U. S. business? (Even if no war came at once, it was clear that the threat was likely to remain.) 2) How the U. S. was affected in 1914 is a matter of record. But since then there have been several enormous shifts in the status...
Knowing well that the poll tax is the chief device whereby Southern Democrats prevent Negroes from voting, the wariest politician in the U.S. quickly added that in condemning the poll tax he was not talking about Negroes. They, he said, were a problem to be handled separately. At this remark, political ears pricked. It was the first time Mr. Roosevelt had publicly mentioned one of the most delicate aspects of his new Liberal party. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass declared that Franklin Roosevelt had exhibited "an absolutely superficial knowledge of the matter...
...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...