Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shelved in committee its $407,855,600 Rivers & Harbors (pork) bill, because on second thought it hadn't the heart to spend that much money ($324,000,000 more than the House voted) and didn't want to give Franklin Roosevelt such a set-up for a veto...
Excuse for last week's action was that France could not afford to hold a general election, with its attendant publicity of the divisions of French political thought, while it was engaged in a "white war" with the Axis powers. Said Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, author of the French three-year economic plan which will also run until 1942: "Today ... on the threshold of the most perilous period of our history, I am sure that nobody would do anything to weaken France by dividing her. The bloodless war which is being forced on us, we can and must...
...Generalissimo, once a stanch Monarchist, was favoring restoration came in the report that the Duke of Maura, now living in Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso fortnight ago held a "conference" of Spanish Monarchists at Lausanne, Switzerland. It has long been thought that in case of a restoration Alfonso's 26-year-old son, Prince Juan, rather than Alfonso, would ascend the throne. The Duke of Maura, eldest son of the onetime Monarchist Premier of Spain, was a trusted adviser of Alfonso, helped frame the final message that Alfonso gave...
...have often had the thought that for the president of the university it would be a good thing if we got a man who was a teacher instead of a man who was a politician." Then the Governor (who had been ribbed by the university's funnypaper for his ungrammatical utterances) added: "It's hard for a man who hasn't had an education to cross swords with a great and learned man as he is. I have my ideas about education...
Reporter Sheean begins with a bus ride through London which set him musing on England's insularity. "In such a state," he concludes, "what preoccupations can there be other than the desire to make money, and more money, and to keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best...