Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt added her voice to the chorus of the pressure groups last fortnight when, in Washington, she addressed the Conference on the Cause & Cure of War (representing 6,000,000 women) in terms which could easily have been construed as downright belligerent. Said she: "I think we ought to urge upon our own people a strict examination of themselves, to say to them, 'What are you willing to give up from a material standpoint, to keep the world at peace? And what are you willing to do to bring your moral support to bear in favor...
...Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred, 72-to-9. Franklin Roosevelt promised to write Judge Roberts a right interesting letter before making another appointment. Snorted Carter Glass: "I think he'll send up a more objectionable one-if he can find...
...embarrassed by the decision as Defendants Pearson and Allen was the Copyright Office. If publications get the idea they do not have to file for copyright unless and until they think they are damaged, they may hold off in such numbers that the Government's $300,000 a year in copyright fees may dwindle to almost nothing...
...pull rabbits out of his hat for easy applause-and easy money. The alternate theory is that this tough, unschooled, brilliant little man has responded subtly to the intellectual insights and disorders of his time, has created in paint their diverse and furious images. Unbiased observers think both theories are partly true...
...Some of the conductors I have seen have got that excited with the music it looked as if they were having a fight with it. ... I think modern music is funny. It always sounds as if it did not take the composer long to make up. ... I liked the symbells very much as they gave off a very good tinkling sound. You could hear them in spite of all the noise. I had a good view of the Drummer...