Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type of Democratic wisdom was illustrated last year by ... Governor Murphy of Michigan"; a good word for Democratic Senator Wagner of New York: "In 1918, when I was 36 years old, I was invited to run for the Governorship of this State. ... I declined the offer. ... I did not think that I had experience and knowledge of public affairs wide enough. . . . Besides, I did not think it quite right to abandon in midstream an important public job" [Assistant Secretary of the Navy]. This was a crack at Thomas Dewey, 36, stepping out of his unfinished job as District Attorney...
Lawyer Dix consulted a deposition taken from Dr. Griebl in Berlin, shot back: "Didn't he say 'I think I could raise $5,000 cash...
When Secretary Edison testified before a Congressional committee last year, he observed that the back yard of every industrial laboratory was piled high with discarded specimens. Said he of airships: "I don't think our scrapheap is big enough...
...Therefore, when any one appears to contemplate a future in which Japan has a monopoly of the Chinese trade and we shall be excluded from it, I think it is flying in the face of facts. It is quite certain that when the war is over and the reconstruction of China begins she cannot be reconstructed without some help from this country...
...should think Harvard would take the lead since they're the educated people," Noron declared. "They should send someone down to the City Council when something about Harvard comes up the give them the right steer on it." Instead, he claimed, the present aloof official attitude perpetuates the misunderstanding between the two elements...