Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cautious Publisher Max Schuster (Simon & Schuster), when asked by Trotskyist Author Max Eastman what he thought of the Soviet purge, said: "My own attitude is one of sympathetic bewilderment...
Michigan's Senator Vandenberg thought the President should disclose "the justifying facts, if any, for the biggest regular budget for arms in our history." Congressman Maury Maverick, the liberal Texan, declared: "We must also decide what national defense is-whether it means battleships 600 miles up the Yangtze River in China or no farther than Hawaii." California's Senator Johnson wanted to know what the "foreign policy of this Government is. I don't know what it is. You don't know what...
...wives, 51.8% thought their marriages were very happy, 27.5%, happy, 12.3% average, 6% unhappy and 2.4% very unhappy...
Neither passenger had lost his air-mindedness. Mr. King rode Pennsylvania Airline's blind landing plane from Washington to Pittsburgh two days later. Mr. Bane took a plane home from Newark. Nevertheless, Passenger Bane recalled his maiden flight as "a night of hell. . . . Mr. King and I ... thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going...
Pilot Jones, shrouded in whirling clouds, bucked the wind until he thought he was over Camden, then turned back to Newark. He missed Newark, missed New York, missed everything except a National Biscuit sign which flashed up once through the gloom, until he picked out an airway beacon...