Word: roading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regardless of Franklin Roosevelt's understandable silence on his successor, many a visitor upon leaving the White House looked searchingly down the road for the bandwagon. Said New York's playwriting Representative Sirovich: "He did not say that he would not be a candidate but from my talks with his most intimate advisers, I am convinced . . . renomination . . . re-election." Chicago's Mayor Kelly also double-negatived: ". . . did not say he would not. . . ." Twenty-four hours before Iowa's ex-Governor Kraschel left the White House avowing that his State's people "would never be satisfied...
...career of German Butcher Gustav Gruebner was crowned last week with a hero's funeral. From Adolf Hitler came a lily wreath and from Kalthof, Danzig Territory, where he was killed by a Polish chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig Nazi...
First Day. In a big, maroon, convertible sedan with the top down and the bullet-proof windows up, the King & Queen, having greeted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and notables at the dockside, were whisked up the winding road from Wolfe's Cove to the old city over a circuitous route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic...
...being impervious to suggestions for reform that come from below. That this is not necessarily so is shown again, for only satisfaction can be felt with Mr. Conant's adoption of the recommendations of the special faculty committee with regard to policy, tenure, and promotion of teachers. Now the road is paved for those whose ideas are not completely orthodox or whose teaching position is not fully assured...
...last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...