Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since the turn of the year Franklin Roosevelt retired last week to the inside pages of the nation's press. If the President was startled by the antagonism displayed by the little businessmen (see p. 11 ) toward him and his Administration, he did not indicate it, for he let them run wild on the front page. In the uproar over foreign policy (see col. 2) he took no visible part. With vocal Congressmen trying desperately to force him to redefine his stand, the closest approach to a statement on foreign policy the President made last week...
...know how you gentlemen feel, but I cannot help feeling . . . that there has been definite and distinct progress toward a spiritual reawakening. ... It is a very significant thing that this awakening has come about in America. It makes me realize more fully that we do have, in addition to the duty we owe to our own people, an additional duty to the rest of the world. Things have been going on in other countries, things which are not spiritual in any sense of the word-and that is putting it mildly...
...Military balance might thus be regarded as inclining toward the Government. But that prospect is complicated by other factors, of which the most important are first, the food shortage from which the areas in Government possession are suffering, secondly, the wearying and exhausting effect of constant air raids on the civil population where there is a deficiency of means to check them...
...devoted, 'disapproving old grandma; the pre-Freudian, high-neck-and-long-sleeves maiden aunt; the warm-hearted servant girl (Peggy O'Donnell). Some of the humor gets grey hairs: The tenth time grandma upbraids grandpa for swearing is scarcely as funny as the first. The narrative, toward the end, begins to stagger and stutter. And Mr. Brink (Frank Conroy) stays up in the apple tree long enough to make the captious wonder if it isn't time for the leaves to turn. But that may be because the tree looks (as grandpa would put it) so goddamn...
...Route Administration. Four years ago, when his ship, the Chelyuskin, had been squeezed, broken and sunk by the knitting ice pack, he spectacularly transferred 71 persons from the ship to an ice floe, whence they were spectacularly rescued by airplane. Last week, as Papanin's floe drifted toward Jan Mayen Island, jungle-bearded Professor Schmidt prepared to lead a rescue party. Whether planes could land in the ice-choked water beside the floe was problematical, so three icebreaker ships were also ordered to accompany the plane...