Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian rule schooled the Czechs in the tricks of passive resistance. Last week word was passed around in Prague that it would be a good trick to decorate the memorial of John Huss, martyred Czech hero who fought for reform of the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such a sentiment...
...example we can at least show them the possibility. We, too, have a stake in world affairs...
Zimmerman pointed out that New England has more at stake in a wise management of political problems than any other section of the United States. Politically New England must, in its own interests, be "radically conservative," he warned...
...erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances of reinstating himself as No. i at stake, the hefty, curly-headed, 62-year-old mayor did valiant battle with another Kelly-Nash deserter...
...vacant throne of the Bureau of Fisheries in Mr. Hopkins' department, Mr. Birmingham gave the impression that Iowa delegates were being lined up for Mr. Hopkins' nomination as President next year. Mr. Birmingham was quickly shushed, but no political observer missed the point that the prize at stake in Harry Hopkins' performance was not just one State's convention delegates. The prize is Presidential Prospect Hopkins'-and the New Deal's-standing with the entire U. S. electorate...