Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Joseph E. Davies and his very rich wife returned last week from their purgatorial year in Russia, to report to Franklin Roosevelt and make ready to go to Belgium, his next step toward Ambassadorial eminence. But their presence was completely eclipsed by the arrival four days earlier of another Ambassador named Joseph. Home from his complete capture of London was "Joe" Kennedy with flashing smiles for the press, a "long and somewhat cheerless" report to the President about conditions abroad, emphatic denials of any mission more secret than attending Joe Jr.'s class day exercises at Harvard...
...harked back to his defeated Supreme Court plan and crowed: "In one way or another . . . the ends I spoke of-the real objectives . . . have been substantially attained. The attitude of the Supreme Court toward Constitutional questions is entirely changed...
...zero hour the sit-downers were still sitting. Police threw tear gas bombs into the two buildings, charged with swinging batons, swung their fists, used stinging riding whips on squatters who showed fight. As the rabble army fled toward Vancouver's poor but sympathetic East End, they picked up post office inkwells and pieces of metalwork, hurled them at department-store windows. Damage was estimated at $50,000, 40 sit-downers and police had to be hospitalized. Among the most seriously hurt was a former Communist leader, Steve Brodie, now styled as secretary of the Single Unemployed Protective Association...
...changing social attitudes have caused doctors to consider new ways of distributing medical care. Traditionally, the American Medical Association, now representing 109,435 of the country's 165,163 licensed doctors, stands for decentralized administration and private initiative. The political and economic tendency of the times, however, is toward larger-scale corporate activity, and many a U. S. doctor-with about a sixth of the population living on relief and another sixth also unable to support private medicine-would agree to some sort of medical socialization...
...Sternberg simply because they want to fight, graduate from their schooling with a horrifying mixture of sophistication and childish innocence. But it is not the brilliantly realistic description of fighting that gives The Mountains and the Stars its peculiar horror. This is supplied by Ungern-Sternberg's cruelty toward his own officers (he humors the rank-&-file, who dote on him). The high point of his officer-discipline is when he flogs an officer who has shot two Cossacks, then burns him at the stake-a scene which puts all stories of lynching in the primer class...