Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have his newspapers back the little project. Watch all the leftists howl like the devil. They, who kick at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review will scream for it if this little tid-bit is passed. Your correspondent agrees with them heartily, but is inclined to smile at their feminine inconsistency. "There in lies their charm," we suppose...
...Association of National Manufacturers, let me commend TIME in mildly ridiculing an American" type at which historians will laugh, at which most thinking Americans today indulgently smile...
...week's Washington rally Oregon's Representative William A. Ekwall spoke the mind of many & many a Congressman when he declared: "About 120,000 people in my district have signed a Townsend petition. When I first heard of this I laughed at it. Then I got the smile off my face. It's like a punching bag - you can't dodge it. If we don't pass it this session we'll have to meet it when we get back home...
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...persuasive quality of his smile is not reducible to Magic, but the persuasive quality of his words is well exemplified in his speeches. When he spoke last spring at Gettysburg he struck his keynote of popularity: "We are all brothers now in a new understanding." He struck it in a sterner mood when reproving the old order at Green Bay: "My friends, the people of the United States will not restore that ancient order!" He struck it sentimentally in his radio speech last September: "My friends, I still believe in ideals." He struck it in Tupelo where he defended...