Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kaaay." Senator Ashurst, the soul of oldtime gallantry, would hardly be so rude as to argue against a lady, but it so happened that the arguments he rose to refute were last week most strikingly expressed by a woman. Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband, Sinclair Lewis, wrote It Can't Happen Here) wrote...
...Marvel." When Senator Ashurst rose last week in the Senate, he was interrupted by Senator Bailey of North Carolina who asked whether Mr. Ashurst did not say after the Supreme Court's NIRA decision that among the "unjust criticisms" leveled at the President was the charge that he intended to enlarge the Court. Senator Ashurst at that time said: "A more ridiculous, absurd and unjust criticism of a President was never made. No person whose opinion is respected has favored attempting such a reckless theory and policy...
...days before Republican Nominee Landon was to deliver his bid for the farm vote at Des Moines last September, Democratic Nominee Roosevelt made headlines by announcing that he had appointed a committee headed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to work out a plan of crop insurance. Up from Topeka rose realistic howls of pain and rage as Landon handlers claimed the President was stealing their man's stuff. Snatching it from his forthcoming speech, they rushed the Landon crop insurance program to the press: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention" (TIME...
Since Rearmament gives so much employment at high wages to the working man, no Labor M.P. seriously opposed Rearmament in debate last week, and in The City shares in British armament and allied firms rose on the Exchange some 20%. Nobody paid much attention to Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps's remark: "We are witnessing the most magnificent subscription to a world suicide pact ever publicized by any country in the world...
...Bermuda, up from the new airport on coral-girt DarreH's Island rose the four-motored, 18-ton flying boat Cavalier for its first test flight since arriving in sections from Great Britain two months ago. For 26 minutes the big craft drummed over the harbor at 185 m.p.h. with only its crew aboard. In a few weeks, Imperial Airways will start it buzzing back & forth to the U. S. in a series of tests preparatory to passenger service this summer...