Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad-shouldered, nervous Celine partly confirmed their view, described Trifles' for a Massacre as an "exercise." Admitting that he had written it in the hope of delaying preparation for war, he said it would not delay war a minute, would probably only bring it on a little sooner...
Like frogs in spring, last week, no sooner had Representative Emanuel Celler been given a chance to croak for his Government Broadcasting Bill (TIME, May 16) than the whole Congressional swamp sang out for radio legislation. As soon as Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced War, Navy and Interior Department endorsement for the Celler Bill, indicated that plans for a Government station to combat Fascist propaganda in South America had White House backing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman and Senator William E. Borah added their endorsements...
...problems which he isolates and presents are problems which must sooner or later be faced--the sooner the better. There is the problem of diet, of the minimum amount of food necessary to keep a family alive: too many go without this amount. There is the housing problem, and three is the inevitable problem of relief. Using anecdote, case histories, statistics, Mr. Hicks puts forward the case for the under-privileged with vivid realism. It is a superficial survey, but presented with irony and understatement it is a powerful stimulant to thought...
More important than the Governor's personal fortune was the certainty that the growing gaps between the principals in the once invincible Guffey-Earle-McCloskey-John L. Lewis combination would be filled with scandalous dirt seldom matched in scandalous Pennsylvania politics. No sooner had Mayor Wilson opened the mudgates than Boss Guffey asked the Senate to find out whether Governor Earle had designated Little Matt as a State Representative in apportioning PWA funds. PWA Administrator Harold Ickes tacitly confirmed that Contractor McCloskey had counseled both the State and the PWA on the mechanics of allotting more than twenty million...
...Sculptor Schlag won the $1,000 sooner, it might have saved the life of his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, who died of pneumonia in March after 22 weeks' illness. Schlag, who could not afford to send her to a hospital, designed the Jefferson nickel in such time as he could spare from nursing...