Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Labor in a pettish temper, the President sped Secretary Perkins off to San Francisco to address the convention. Her audience was friendly but far from enthusiastic when she keynoted: "We cannot expect the Roosevelt Administration or any other Administration to give us the millennium on a silver platter...
...increasing to any great extent the already heavy burden borne on wearying shoulders. Their overwhelming condemnation of government restriction of crops, government control of private business, and the policy of exempting the new federal agencies from the civil service rules, should be taken as fair evidence of the temper of public opinion. They realize that no government can restrict involving the expenditure of over six billion dollars a year while the revenue barely totals four billions. Cognizant of the fact that no legislative process can repeal the old law of supply and demand, they find it impossible to support policies...
That set-to in Marseilles was small but significant. The political temper of France was stretched no less tight throughout the Republic. And that same night Premier Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue sat down before a microphone to give another of his Rooseveltian broadcasts. Shrewdly, his first move was to attack the Reds. Cried the Premier...
There must have been just a bit of consternation at the story down on Morningside Heights the next morning and adjust a bit of a chuckle to temper it. For what else could worry Yale so that it had to practice on Sunday if it were not the thought that Columbia's Lou Little and his boys would only wait about another week before devouring the Bulldog, stub tall...
...best way to avoid the claws of the Tammany Tiger is to indulge in squabbles among themselves. The setting is usually on Long Island and the action rages at the cocktail hour when polo is the chief rival in discussion. This time, however, the children have completely lost their temper and the action has been transferred from pillared terraces to the dank halls of Rochester where the Convention gets underway tomorrow...