Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington this week, the 24th Special Session of Congress in U. S. history convened under circumstances to which Senator Ashurst's remark was peculiarly pertinent. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt last month called the Session to deal with a five-point legislative program, the U. S. was, relatively speaking, economically content. The five weeks since have been just long enough to include the first serious decline in U. S. business since 1933. To the notable opportunities for controversy already foreseen for the special session, the slump added another. This week, when Vice President Garner in the Senate and Speaker William...
...felt as if the split was brought about by the more Southern schools, such as Alabama, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. . . . In fact, at the Conference banquet that night when official announcement of the split was made, my seat being near Wade, I heard him remark to the man on his left something to this effect-"They have put us with the damn amateurs. If I ever get the chance I will show them a few things." The first chance came in 1933, when he was offered a game by Georgia Tech...
...commend TIME for its translation of Pliny the Elder's remark about the Etruscan ceramic statues. We teachers of Latin are so used to hearing such a sentence woodenly rendered "More sacred than gold and certainly more innocent," that it brightens the day for us to meet a vigorous and idiomatic translation...
...Republican Party has not learned the lesson that it must produce principles and program besides being against and joyriding on mistakes, it has not read history. . . . There is talk of fusion and coalition. Let me make but one remark on that. It is a result devoutly to be wished for. But the people fuse or coalesce around ideas and ideals, not around political bargains or stratagems. If the Republican Party meets the needs and aspirations of the people who are opposed to the New Deal, they will fuse and coalesce and not before. They only join in the march...
German intimates of the Realmleader have repeatedly heard him make various versions of the above remark, and last week they were not surprised when Der Führer, having welcomed the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to his Bavarian château, drew royal Edward aside and was seen to engage him for 20 minutes in heated conversation. "The tour of our Fatherland which the Duke and Duchess have now completed," remarked one of the Dictator's aides, "has shown how right Der Führer was in judging that King Edward's abdication would be a serious blow...