Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President arranged to have a written question submitted asking whether he agreed with U. S. Steel's Benjamin Franklin Fairless that steel prices could not be cut without cutting wages. The answer, written out, he read to reporters in the best Roosevelt manner, tossing his head from side to side, stopping once to point out how he used monosyllables so anyone could understand. Excerpts...
...himself from the job on ground of ill health. To provide publicity for the balls and themselves, a battalion of major and minor Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them to her husband, obliged with photographs and luncheons. Janet Gaynor, the President observed, was as "cute as a button...
...fleet in the Pacific. Looking and speaking like the Navy's No. 1 Admiral, which he is, the Chief of Naval Operations replied frankly: "I can only answer that by saying that in the event of an attack being made on the United States coast on the Atlantic side the fleet could be brought to the Atlantic Ocean in sufficient time to prevent any real success on the part of an enemy. . . ." Admiral Leahy backed the President's program to the hilt, and incidentally added a new reason of his own for a Big Navy-"Possible exploitation...
...loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...
...such outbursts had taken place inside No. 10. The meeting got off on the right foot when de Valera found on the British side of the long Cabinet table his trusted friend, "straight shooting'' Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late James Ramsay MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find...