Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME [Aug. 8] has grossly misrepresented both my personal attitude toward the hundreds of thousands of U. S. traveling salesmen whose patronage make our own businesses possible and also has misrepresented the objectives of a very useful new public service which our Hertz dealers and the New Haven Railroad together have successfully launched...
...Cavalry has only 9,919 men, 895 officers in 12 horsed regiments, two mechanized regiments. Its new chief is lively Major General John K. Herr, a grey horseman, onetime top-flight polo player, who hates to smell gasoline, does what he can to brake the trend toward mechanization at the cost of horsed units...
With his mobilization machine in good order, Louis Johnson this week flew toward Alaska. He is to look over the route of a proposed 2,338-mile highway from Seattle to Fairbanks, inquire whether the project has sufficient military value to justify expenditure of U. S. money on a road through Canada. By law, this is no direct concern of the Assistant Secretary of War. But Franklin Roosevelt is interested, and Louis Johnson is glad to accommodate his friend at the White House...
...minutes. By noon he had collected a gallery of 500 and scores of 90, 82, 82, 82. Then Providence sent a rainstorm. Fortified by sandwiches & coffee and refreshed by a shower during his 97-minute rest, Golfer Ferebee continued his jaunt, followed by a dozen reporters, photographers and, toward late afternoon, half of La Salle Street (including Partner Tuerk...
...direction we all desire? "Who, after all, is qualified to criticize him?" In 1936, when Candidate Roosevelt presumably desired prosperity as earnestly as he does today, Hearstpapers were as loud in their opposition to Roosevelt as they were in support of him in 1932.* Behind this softening attitude toward the New Deal's spending policy is a Hearstian conviction that Recovery will be the big story of the coming months. Having muffed the big story of 1936 and suffered immeasurable lowering of prestige, Hearst now seems determined to get back on the side of the People...