Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Excerpts) : "Today, with many other democracies, the United States will give no encouragement to the belief that our processes are outworn or that we will approvingly watch the return of forms of government which for 2,000 years have proved their tyranny and their instability alike...
Illinois' No. 1 Democrat, forceful Governor Henry Horner, has been four months sunning his bald head and nursing his ailing heart in Miami, where his entourage last week denied persistent reports that his health might prevent his return to duty. Henry Horner is Illinois' No. 1 Democrat by virtue of the drubbing he gave his erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances...
...there are many-would welcome the ministrations of a business-minded churchman who would: 1) supply each of them with a $45 radio (which he could buy in quantities for $25 apiece) ; 2) broadcast to them a rousing Sunday morning sermon, a good choir program; 3) ask in return only such donations as they care to send him. From Indianapolis for the past five years, a smart businessman named E. (for Emmett) Howard Cadle has been doing exactly that. Last week, celebrating the fifth anniversary of his broadcasts over Cincinnati's big station WLW, he counted...
...brief return to power in 1932 when he swung the Roosevelt-Garner nomination. But Roosevelt would have none of Hearst, so Hearst turned to snarl at the "Raw Deal" and even boosted his old enemy, Al Smith, for President. Hearst staked his "reputation as a prophet" on Landon's election in 1936. When Roosevelt was reelected he tried to do a turnabout, but nobody cared any more...
...John Jacob Astor, a fat young man with a fat income and no job, was entitled to deduct $5,163 for "business expenses" on his income-tax return was something the Government did not understand. His explanation: "The collection of income is the business conducted by the petitioner . . . and the expenses of such trade or business are proper deductions from the petitioner's income." The Government's answer...