Word: smile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt sitting in his study, was less than human if he did not smile. Nature, which allowed the cotton farmer 170 lb. for his average acre during the ten years preceding 1933, was about to bestow a bountiful 223 lb. per acre, equal to 151 S's, highest yield in U. S. history. Reasons: Abandonment of less productive acres in favor of cash benefits; scientific seed improvement. Results: The price of cotton had tumbled from about 12? last spring to 10?, cotton farmers' loud cries of "Do something!" were resounding in Southern Congressmen's ears...
...lonely traveler dreading my first Remarked, "I am all my second. My third is coming, I fear the worst, on a friendly second I reckoned." And then a smile o'er his features stole For he heard the perfect voice of my whole...
Chanted the crowd: "Earle for President in 1940!" Whether this made John L. Lewis smile, no one has said. But that the "LEWIS-ROOSEVELT BREAK IS HINTED'' headlined in Tuesday's New York Times made Lewis frown, no one needed to say. For the warning appeared over the signature of the Times' Louis Stark, dean of U. S. Labor reporters and a man not given to crying wolf...
Senator Vandenberg, with his sly kewpie smile, explained why and how he drafted a new one: i) It seemed absurd, with the country at large in favor of abolishing child labor, that an amendment could not be written which "would say what we meant without saying what we didn't mean." 2) One of the President's chief arguments for the bill to enlarge the Supreme Court was that so simple a reform as the abolition of child labor could not be accomplished via a Constitutional amendment even in 13 years. Senator Vandenberg spent two months getting...
...clubhouse, but they could be reserved for the leaders among leaders. The garden variety of Congressmen could go out in batches of 130 or so a day, have a good time baking in the sun, trapshooting, fishing, swimming, relaxing in the julep room and basking in the Roosevelt smile...