Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich' will not suffice to pay our mounting deficit. Inevitably millions of our citizens must contribute, each in proportion to his ability to pay. Incidentally, when this happens, and citizens realize that there is no Santa Claus, the popularity of loose public spending will suffer a desirable setback...
...Nazi rowdies. Already drafted, this protest had been scoffed at by the Nazi orators from Berlin who roared that: "The League cannot consider protests from an insignificant minority!" Not insignificant was 40.1%. From London to Moscow this week European editors referred to "Hitler's heaviest moral setback since the Blood Purge." In Germany, after Danzig returns were known, no German of any prominence would comment. The official Press, obliged to rave at somebody, raved against Danzig's onetime Nazi Premier Dr. Rauschning who appealed last week for anti-Nazi votes. When Danzig Nazi gangsters threatened to beat...
...Terrible, and it originated in commerce. From then on, English ideas and institutions began to permeate Russia; their influence in the reign of Peter the Great, for example, is notable, and not even the excessively francophile trendencies of Catherine the Great were able to give them any real setback. Locke and Newton, as we should guess, were known to the Russian intelligentsia, even if the knowledge was gained through French intermediaries, and Shakespere, likewise, as the whole history of criticism shows, is too great ever to be altogether ignored anywhere for long; he came into his own in Russia...
...Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud. But then there was no jury for that smart little lawyer to work on. He got a real setback in 1929 when, despite tears and eloquence, a jury convicted Fall of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Mr. Doheny. But five months later Lawyer Hogan triumphantly vindicated himself by persuading another jury that what was a bribe as accepted by Fall had been only a legitimate loan as made by Doheny...
Cast up the balance of your life. On one side of the ledger put all your past pleasures, all the hard-won triumphs and unexpected windfalls, all the satisfactions, material, mental, emotional. On the other side itemize every trouble, setback and sorrow, all the pain, frustration, deprivation and boredom. Now add up your columns and prepare to make an immediate choice of two alternatives...