Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critics of H. R. 13,991 had the upper hand during the House debate. Its friends, armed with votes, made no spirited defense, beyond the hopeful prediction that it would somehow up commodity prices. Texas' Marvin Jones, chairman of the Agriculture Committee whose measure it was, warded off attacks with this query: "If you don't favor this, what form of farm relief do you favor?"-and no good answers were forthcoming. Of the lack of enthusiasm behind H. R. 13,991 he cried: "Did you ever see any enthusiasm in a sick room? Did you ever watch...
...their room it would just fill up nicely. Just as soon as I got them quieted, there was a lot of noise at the door, and a feller kept trying to force his way in. Said he was a Yaadcop and that we must turn down the radio. Somehow the boys at these dances seem to think they can talk them selves out of anything; but who ever heard of a Yaadcep. I think he must have had a drink...
Never in my experience has so much been made of so simple an incident. It somehow caught the newspapermen's fancy. Clippings have come from all over, indicating country-wide use, and worse and worse falsification of the story. It has been irritating. You understand it is not my desire to flee from the wrath of the various sentimentalists whose crank letters have come to me complaining of "cruelty," etc. But it is because the whole thing as far as our institution is concerned, is untrue...
...Moeur promised all his friends jobs. Last week he was in hot water because he found he had more friends than jobs. A physician, he employs his bedside manner in public. Newsmen consider him profane. Politicians consider him radical. The common people consider him their liberal savior who will somehow deal them reduced taxes...
Everything irons out in the end. The wrong people get the credit, no one lives perfectly happy ever after: that, Author Nicolson implies, is the world's way. England, diplomacy, good intentions have somehow muddled through again...