Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency, but it was a different one. Two years ago a hundred million people looked to this cheerful, charming gentleman to do something in the greatest industrial crisis on record. This year they used their ballots again, not as a desperate hope but as a grateful reward for services rendered. President Roosevelt might not have done all the things he promised to do and all the things he did do might not be for the country's good in the long run -but what he did do seemed so much better than the deeds of any other single citizen...
...their own place in this unity of the one family. . . . May I add, very simply and sincerely, that if I may be regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and widespread family, sharing its life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labors of my reign of well-nigh five and twenty years. ... I commend you to the Father of whom you and every family in Heaven and on Earth is made. God bless...
Such deflationary measures did not help the private business of Francqui and Gutt but, as public-spirited statesmen, they had their reward when the belga bulged above the dollar on foreign exchange...
...whole prior development which culminated in that age is at once masterly and full. One would like, above all to linger over more of his statements than this: "The end of (Greek) science was not to do but to know: felix qui potuit rorum cognoscore causas. The reward of the scientist was to share the blessedness of the immortal gods who are eternally satisfied with the contemplation of the ordered course of the heavens and the vision of eternal law." As he points out this ideal was as incomprehensible to the mediaeval Christian as it is to the modern Englishman...
...their due and perhaps a little more their best course was to stand and deliver their votes in a body. Twenty-three votes from Pennsylvania would put Representative Byrns into the Speakership when Congress meets Jan. 3 and for that each member of the delegation would undoubtedly get his reward in terms of good committee assignments...