Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famous. There Diana, who is six, listened to that man deliver his sixth annual address to Congress on the State of the Union. Diana's father can tell her that, up to a point, it was Franklin Roosevelt's most smashingly successful message since his "The only thing we have to fear is Fear" speech of March 1933. After the November elections had showed Mr. Roosevelt's political stock at a six-year low, last week's speech seized and dramatized the issue on which Mr. Roosevelt's personal popularity in the land was already...
...suggestion that girl pages as a regular thing might brighten up Congress, Doorkeeper Sinnott, thinking of cloakroom conversations he has heard, threw up his hands, exclaimed, "It just wouldn't work...
...attacking the costliness of Herbert Hoover's government, he declared that "You cannot go very far with any real Federal economy without a complete change of concept of what are the proper functions and limits of the Federal Government itself." Last week he told Congress practically the same thing-that a third of the Government's activities would have to be cut out to balance the budget. But last week he used the statement as a conclusive argument against reducing expenditures...
...university is one of Wisconsin's great popular prides. They remonstrated with him, and at another budget hearing, on a teacher's retirement fund, Julius Heil showed he was learning his lesson. At first he flared up, demanded to know why there should be such a thing as a teachers' retirement fund. "What do they do for me when I get old?" he snorted. "They don't hold...
...royal ardor on official jaunts, insisted on rest periods at Banff, Victoria and Jasper Park. Their Majesties will deftly escape ticklish social problems by living on their train most of the way, by holding no royal courts. They may, however, hold a garden party in Ottawa-the next best thing...