Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Implicit in the President's fiscal philosophy of 1939 is therefore a tacit acknowledgment of an idea that political realists long have harbored: expenditures cannot be reduced for reasons both political and social; the U. S. economic system is going to support a larger and larger debt; the U. S. budget is not likely to be balanced by the New Deal or by a successor administration for a long time to come. Corollary of this (not of course believed by the President) is that the U. S. debt will never be paid off, and that until some drastic event...
...parties were to be split, Chairman Sandys soothingly explained, no new party formed. What was sought was a new political group, in which members could keep their party ties while pledging themselves to support: 1) a firmer, anti-dictator British foreign policy; 2) acceleration of British rearmament. Immediate goal, announced Mr. Sandys, was to enlist 100,000 members. To achieve this, the meeting officially titled its organization the Hundred Thousand, set up a recruiting office in London with the Duchess of Atholl as treasurer...
...First Hundred Thousand," the valiant little British Expeditionary Force of 1914, is a name brimful of heroic associations for Britons. How effective the second Hundred Thousand will be in capturing popular imagination and support in opposing Mr. Chamberlain's policies remains to be seen...
...Daladier, followed by his staff, shook hands ceremoniously. His Highness listened to the Premier promise France's "continued protection" of the Bey's domains. The Bey's Minister of the Pen read in Arabic this cordial reply: "All Tunisia will, if need be, group itself in support of France." Then His Highness decorated the Premier with the coveted order of Aned el Aman, usually given only to royalty...
...rifle shoot, you should have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support I won't stay out of anything," is a sheer unfounded exaggeration: promise me you didn't mean that...