Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which went up as the Nominee was driven slowly around the infield behind an Uncle Sam leading a donkey. Over the grandstands gleamed his floodlighted portrait, 40 ft. high, captioned HE SAVED AMERICA. Exhilarated by this hero's welcome, Franklin Roosevelt mounted a platform over second base to tell Pittsburgh and the nation how he had done it, justify the money it had cost...
...fighting tones, the nominee trumpeted to New York's Democratic State Convention at Syracuse: "Tonight you and I join forces for the 1936 campaign. . . . I need not tell you there will be- there are-many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings-as they have always done-to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses...
...turn the Red Issue to his own political advantage. "There is," he continued, "no difference between the two major parties as to what they think about Communism. But there is a very great difference between the parties in what they do about Communism. And I will tell you why Communism is a manifestation of the social unrest which always comes with widespread economic maladjustment; we in the Democratic party have not been content merely to denounce this menace. We have been realistic enough to face it. We have been intelligent enough to do something about it. . . . In the spring...
...rabble-rousing attitude which he struck recently at Poissy, addressing throngs of French workers beneath an enormous banner poster of himself remindful of those unfurled at Moscow to glorify Stalin (see cut). With his Communist supporters highly approving the stay-in-strike technique, Premier Blum felt constrained to tell the Chamber at 6 a. m.: "Occupation of factories by strikers cannot continue and shall not continue. The confidence which the working class has in the Government dispenses with the necessity of employing any methods other than those of conciliation and arbitration...
Around the track, Princeton authorities thoughtfully posted announcers to tell the runners how fast they were going. This was to make it easy for Lovelock to set a new world's record. When the race was over, Lovelock had not only failed to set a new record, but he had also failed to win. A brave spurt at the finish left him five yards behind Kansas' Archie San Romani, whose excellent but non-record-breaking time was 4:09. Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, whom Lovelock last month rated the best in the world, finished third...