Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourism. But for one business favor every Hawaiian last week thanked the New Deal which supplied a traveling President to publicize the territory as a land for tourists. In 1929 nearly 22,000 people sailed four days and a half across 2,000 miles of Pacific Ocean to see Hawaii's famed hedges of night-blooming cereus, to lie lazily on its beaches, explore its volcanoes, taste its papaias and mangos, smell its fragrant pikake blossoms, listen to its ukuleles. For these and like blessings they left $11,000,000 behind, a sort of thank-offering which the Hawaiians gratefully...
...sheets urging everyone everywhere to help make the vision come true. Saturday, Oct. 6, 1934, they said, was to be National Recognition Day for Sunday School Teachers. No reform, no new organization, no salaried jobs, no appeal for funds was involved. "It is just a generous gesture of 'Thank You' to a great company of noble men and women. ... If successful, it should be the most widespread and impressive religious demonstration ever witnessed in the land...
...jest wanta say a word to thank that there northern feller Carmer for the fine book he has wrote about us pore ignorant people down here in Alabama [TIME, July 2]. They shore do discover things about us and we do like for the rest of the world to know how we live down here...
...cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know how to thank you men," grinned Mrs. Lydia Lobsiger...
...those obscure citizens who believes the minority is often right, permit me to thank you for your clear, fair and newsworthy article on the William Jennings Bryan University and its first graduating class [TIME, June 25]. Mr. Bryan was an ordained elder in our Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and although he was hopelessly outvoted by a church which is fast slipping into Modernism and Apostasy, he was never afraid to inform the church of her danger, and in the face of ridicule and hostility, his superb moral courage showed that he feared God more than he feared man. The last cowardly...