Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bond issue referendum to enable San Francisco, with PWA help, to buy the Hetch Hetchy power lines. And Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was, to Mr. Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead sought a WPA grant to renovate the old city hall. Mr. Ickes accused Mr. Tobin, "well wired for sound," of a grandstand "economy" play. Hotly, Mr. Tobin retorted that not he, but his predecessor, had asked for the new hall. From...
...drinker but not a drunkard, set him back from No. 611 to 711 in the current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...
Senator Walsh snorted, without disclosing details: "It is almost unbelievable that a political election could reach such a low level! . . . The American people would be shocked!" Senator Sheppard said in advance that the campaign looked so bad it pointed "sharply toward an election contest in the U. S. Senate, regardless of which group's candidate triumphs...
...royalties to sell these out to the State, as of July 1942, for a total compensation of ?66,450,000 ($332,250,000). This does not nationalize the coal industry (since private interests will continue to operate the mines, paying royalties to the State), but means a mighty stride toward Nationalization...
Lenin, she says, could control Zinoviev, Radek, Trotsky, but she insists that he disliked Zinoviev, despised cynical Radek, whom she calls a vulgar politician, and distrusted Trotsky's ambition. As for Stalin, she says he was so little known in 1919 that nobody had any attitude toward him. Her version of Bolshevik history is that Lenin employed Zinoviev to split the labor movement of other countries by all manner of intrigue, that such methods became habitual, were employed by Trotsky as much as by Stalin, led to recent Russian trials. Although Angelica Balabanoff has not lost her faith...