Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This would place vigor in the ranks of the opposition. A definite program is more difficult to suggest, for when a man is taking drugs, the first thing is to break him of the habit. It also demands a leader which so far has seemed impossible. The best that the Republican Party can do today is to keep its form of organization and act with intelligence. However, if it retains its present characteristics, it must justly give way to a third party which will represent the vigorous opposition of youth and intelligence...
...will be the chief issue in Rumania's next election. "Through her meddling in politics," he said, "no less than twelve cabinets have fallen and four Rumanian elections have followed on each other's heels. Mme Lupescu is responsible for almost every evil in the country. I suggest we should hold party meetings all over Rumania to clear up this scandal. Every Rumanian should receive a good example from the palace. Otherwise there is no sense in spending millions for priests and teachers...
...able and enthusiastic sailor, the President watched the proceedings closely from the Nourmahal's deck, exercised his prerogative as commander-in-chief of the Navy half way through the race. When he thought the destroyer Manley, with newsreel men aboard, was crowding Endeavour, he had a sailor wigwag: "Suggest you are too close to challenger. ROOSEVELT." The Manley promptly dropped back, trailed the fleet home...
...most commercial bankers, however, the President's two personal stories seemed to suggest a formula for how not to run their business. Wall Street pundits promptly pointed out that it was just the type of loan referred to by Mr. Roosevelt which brought on most of the banking troubles of the Depression. The examiner, they said, was quite right in throwing them out because a commercial bank's proper function is not to lend money for long or indefinite periods but to keep its funds turning over with short, self-liquidating loans. The Treasury, however, pushed plans...
...office of John Mead Howells he had to turn $40,000 of his prize over to that New York architect. Soon he had all the commissions he wanted. A strident exponent of functionalism, a reckless experimenter, he gave his black American Radiator Building (Manhattan) a gold-flecked top to suggest burning coal, proudly pointed out that windows which usually look like ugly black holes, become invisible in a black building. By putting orange shades on the windows of the Daily News Building he used them as a part of a vertical motif of alternating white and reddish stripes. His blue...