Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparing your desire for a fair price for the farmer to the appetite of hogs for corn. . . . "The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to deal swiftly with kidnappers, gangsters and racketeers. That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to save innocent victims from wildcat banking, from watered stocks and from all other kinds of 'confidence games.' That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of Government to obtain and to maintain fair reward for labor, whether it be the labor of the farmer or the factory worker...
This was sympathetic Squire Baldwin's bumbling way of conveying to His Majesty an expression of the Cabinet's grief on learning that not even Lord Dawson of Penn, who saved George V's life seven years ago, had been able to save the King's elder sister, H. R. H. Princess Victoria, who died last week (TIME...
...complaisance! (Applause). . . . In a civilized society, there must be only one army- that of the Nation! (tremendous applause). . . . Either our Government will change its methods or we will change the Government!" On the spot in which Pierre Laval now found himself only a great master of the ambiguous could save the day. The Auvergnat is precisely that. He was first elected to the Chamber as a rabid Socialist. In a witty vaudeville sketch now convulsing Paris the actor playing M. Laval says of those early days: "I was never a Socialist; only the people who voted for me were." Today...
...this lecture as a vital and stimulating subject. The present crisis in China is only another example of the many forces which are hastening the collapse of her precious social customs. The patriarchal family is beginning to disintegrate; students are demanding freedom from the customs of the past. To save the gold of China's art of living; and yet give her what enlightenment modernity offers is no mean problem...
...appeal: "Teachers should be acceptable hygienic models for their pupils in matters of weight." Fat people have "relatively higher mortality and morbidity rates than persons of normal weight.'' Too many Rose Freistaters would "constitute a drain on the teachers' pension fund." Convinced that no diet could save Miss Freistater from expanding, sooner or later, to her normal 182, Board Chairman Henry Levy explained: "Teachers must climb stairs, take part in fire drills and be able to handle all real school emergencies. ..." Last week Commissioner Graves fixed Dec. 11 for a hearing on the appeal. Meanwhile Miss Freistater...