Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ironical covers! A full week after Schuschnigg's fall, and the end ot Austria as a sovereign independent State, along comes TIME with Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria," beaming all over your cover as though he were almost the man of the hour...
Last fortnight the Senate defeated an amendment to make Congressional approval by a mere majority a prerequisite of any Presidential shift. Since this point was the crux of the matter, the vote, though closer than expected, made it look as though the bill would have clear sailing. Far from silencing the opposition, however, it served to redouble it. Consequently, what had been merely a political tug-of-war last week became a nationwide commotion ranging from a series of articles by columnist Dorothy Thompson to the effect that if the bill passed "one man, once elected President, can rule this...
...going to vote against the bill anyway. Ten thousand went to New York's Robert Wagner, who promptly decided to vote against instead of for the bill, and the presumption was that several of his colleagues would do likewise. At this point, it looked so much as though the Detroit priest, who last fortnight went on record as favoring authoritarian government in the U. S., had administered a ninth-inning defeat to Franklin Roosevelt that the New York World-Telegram ran a streamer headline: REORGANIZATION BILL SEEMS DOOMED...
Messrs. Gasque and Rankin and their committees are men dedicated to any & every proposal to pay more money to anyone who wore a uniform, even though the bill for veterans' benefits already tots up to $600,000,000 each year (about 8% of the budget). Franklin Roosevelt pays both groups plenty of attention, for it was they who led the fight and passed the $2,000,000,000 Bonus over his veto...
...Though first performed in Athens 2,376 years ago, this play is said to have startling modernity of subject and treatment...