Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resigned his hot spot on the Dies committee, shifted to the Smith group. Prematurely grey Mr. Healey, long a stentorian New Dealer, had been working under wraps on the Dies group, with his strongly Catholic constituency clamoring for more vigorous Red-baiting. California's young Jerry Voorhis will step into Healey's lukewarm shoes as the New Deal's flatfoot assigned to watch Mr. Dies. New Dealers begged Speaker Bankhead to add Illinois' T. V. Smith to the committee as a further balance...
...Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. His friends call him "Old Plunk." In 1914, when he was a young Commander, he accompanied Rear-Admiral (later Admiral of the Fleet, Earl) Beatty on a military mission to the late Tsar Nicholas II-as a step in desperate preparation for World War I, which broke out a few weeks later. Last week, now one of Britain's wisest naval strategists, he set out for Moscow again-in a desperate effort to stave off World...
...grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead is the fact that Il Duce pilots his own plane, rides horseback, swims, skis, can lead his militiamen in a half-mile trot or a goose step. The Dictator's hair is cut close to his head so that neither increasing greyness nor baldness is noticeable. His physical endurance is still greater than that of most of the younger Fascists of his entourage...
...dwindled from $143,085,000 to $34,035,000. On top of this, an $85,000,000 loan is to mature in London next year. To save New Zealand's currency, early last winter Prime Minister Savage not only set up control of exchange but took the drastic step of restricting imports by 10%, announced that for the last half of 1939 imports would be restricted by 33⅓%. This move, although resulting in a more favorable trade balance, was deeply resented by British Empire manufacturers who had always had a free and open market in the Dominion...
...policeman of the land, who has found in Attorney General Frank Murphy the perfect, implacable, incorruptible yet deferent boss. Mr. Murphy takes Mr. Hoover with him on major punitive expeditions, such as the one to Kansas City to "get" Boss Thomas J. Pendergast. Mr. Murphy encourages Mr. Hoover to step out vigorously on lines of his own, as any smart policeman likes...