Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adept hand in managing the press, Franklin Roosevelt knows when to make news, when not to make it. Last week, in the midst of the sharpest U. S. diplomatic crisis since the World War (see col. 2), his cue was not to make...
...week the incident aroused no outcry, no demand in Congress or the press that the U. S. Navy immediately steam across the Pacific to blow Tokyo off the map. What was remarkable was that it produced precisely the opposite effect. While the State Department was engaged in sending the sharpest notes since the World War, reaction of the U. S. generally was alarm, not that Japan would go unpunished, but that the offense might somehow involve...
...terms to have Japan's sacred Son of Heaven informed of the feelings of the President of the U. S. C. Major social event of the Presidential week was the Gridiron Club Banquet, at which the President's remarks are, by strict rule, completely off the record. Sharpest of the six skits written by Washington newspapermen concerned Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the Supreme Court who, unlike Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justices James C. McReynolds and Harlan Fiske Stone, did not attend. Excerpt...
...stave off the inevitable by arguing that in default of the Farm Bill the Senate should proceed to another item on the President's program, his executive reorganization proposals. But anti-lynching advocates led by Missouri's stocky Bennett Clark, one of the Senate's sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this would violate their agreement. At this juncture Vice President Garner, who like his chief had an aching tooth and wanted no part of the headache that was to follow, surrendered his gavel to Senator Clark. No sooner had Anti-Lyncher Clark recognized Anti-Lyncher Wagner to introduce...
...tour of the West this fall, seemed subject to recheck. Most important of all, what had looked six weeks ago like a minor reaction on the New York Stock Exchange had developed into a major business recession which was not only the longest since 1933 but one of the sharpest in U. S. economic history...