Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were known a considerable element of high officials here is glad that the ice has been broken. For it is believed the securities act cannot be materially revised at this session of Congress anyhow, so any maneuver that is lawful and gets capital into circulation is welcomed as a step that may accelerate the processes of recovery...
...interference in state criminal administration might lead to fascism, and fascism is tyranny," declared Sheldon Glueck, professor of Criminology, in discussing the problem of the apprehension of criminals. "The failure of the states to find a satisfactory solution to the crime problem does not prove that the government should step in and take over...
...comrades, digging his own grave, and settling into it with a machine gun and a rifle; old trooper Denny detailing the willing charms of various duskies; Karloff, crazed into fanaticism, striding in his rags, lighting the dunes with his sanctified grin, and deliberately poking into the sand, at every step, his eight-foot, roughwood cross...
General Hugh Johnson plumes himself on his capacity to withstand public criticism. Last week he was inviting the country to step up and find fault with his NRAdministration. But the series in the Post, against which he has long nursed a private grudge, was more than he could stand. Last week in a radio address he flung out this handful of barbed words...
When commercial operators lost their airmail contracts, they warned Washington and the country that the Army, for all its fine spirit. was not equipped or trained to step into the breach (TIME, Feb. 19). Their words were airily swept aside as sour grapes. But last week a sense of shocked surprise ran through the land. Citizens began to wonder if, after all, the commercial operators were not right, if President Roosevelt was not wrong on his airmail policy. Newspaper editors wailed loudly that the toll of the Army's first week with the airmail was too high a price...