Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Macaulay: "I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both...
...here in the presence of the gentleman who spoke on the radio last night and in the presence of those Democrats who are likely to be candidates for office in 1938, the sooner we get that man out of the position he now occupies by virtue of the acquiescence of his fellows, the better it will be for the Democratic party. . . ." Later, when a petition to remove Senator Guffey as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was being circulated, Senator Barkley revealed he had submitted his resignation a week before...
...sooner was this out of the way than Treasurer Elieser Kaplal of the Zionist Executive Committee blithely presented a scheme to settle 200,000 more Jews in Palestine within the next three years, notwithstanding the fact that the partition scheme promised sharply to check Jewish immigration...
...automobile prices seemed inevitable, though GM's profit margin is not yet distressingly slim (13% for the June quarter).* Gloomed Mr. Sloan: "Much might be said as to the effect of increased selling prices on the course of the recovery movement........ . The hope might be expressed, however, that sooner or later the fact will be recognized that sound and desirable progress, reflecting a higher standard of living, never can be made possible by the policy of arbitrarily increasing wages, shortening hours and reducing efficiency, without regard to the effect on real prices. Higher real wages and shorter hours-highly...
...sooner had he undertaken the mayor's race for Tammany than Dr. Copeland made an unusual announcement. He would likewise enter the Republican primary and welcome nomination on the Republican ticket. The reason for this was obvious: he runs altogether too serious a risk of being beaten in the Democratic primary. That risk is not so much his as Tammany's, for he indicated that he would not resign his place in the Senate to make the race...