Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forceful, vitriolic speaker when he is aroused, Homer Bone is as unrelenting as ever toward the men he calls the big-dough boys." Besides Franklin Roosevelt, his enthusiasms are his son "Home," 16, locomotives, and oysters, which he sometimes eats for breakfast...
...angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania's Negro vote...
...foreign and native advisers of Generalissimo Chiang have agreed from the first with his policy of using the best of his troops (those drilled by German officers before these were recalled by Hitler) mainly to herd hundreds of thousands of Chinese provincial troops toward the Japanese and prevent those who wished to escape from escaping. After the Japanese occupied Shanghai they found many dead Chinese machine gunners handcuffed to their guns. (The Chinese explanation: "They handcuffed themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some...
Machine rule has not only lost its adjustment function, but also has suffered from a changed temperament of the times, "Marx continues. This "changed temperament" is the "rapid evaporation of non-interventionist illusions of government" and the "Conservationist tendencies supplanting the carefree indifference toward social squandering...
...college should go far toward solving Yale's housing problem for, like Harvard, the Elis have 400 Sophomores yearly who are not included in the colleges...