Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Railroad Commission of Louisiana. At 27 he got on the State Public Service Commission. At 34 he was Governor. At 38 he was U. S. Senator and political master of Louisiana in a literal sense that non-Louisianians cannot understand. In six years he ran the State debt up from $46,000,000 to $143,000,000 and doubled its annual operating expenses but today no responsible person in Louisiana dares challenge his power. The Governor is his puppet. He curses his State Legislature to its face and then boldly boasts that "they are the finest collection...
Such words as the English managed to insert edgewise the German assimilated without pausing in his stride. At 7:15 p. m. Sir John and Capt. Eden withdrew with negotiation not yet begun. At their Embassy correspondents were given to understand that "the best that can be hoped for" is that Germany will demand as of right an Army as large as the largest (Russia's), an air force as large as the largest (France's) and a navy 30% as large as His Majesty's Government's. "This," prominent Nazis said, "will be sufficient until...
...last grievance is to the effect that Jewish immigration has brought about poverty and unemployment among the Arabs. Coming from a man who had personal experience of Palestine, this grievance is hard to understand: it is, indeed, notorious that standard of life, wages, conditions of labor among the Palestinian Arabs have increased increased enormously owing to the Jewish influx and example, while they have remained almost stationary in the other countries of the Near East. Even unemployment among the Arabs (largely existing in the villages and antedating the Jewish immigration) has, if anything, shown a tendency to decrease...
Meetings of the Student Conference on Careers in Government, scheduled to begin on April 12th at Harvard, should arouse the interest of the whole student-body. With governmental agencies playing an increasingly important part in the daily lives of all, it is essential to understand many of the principles to be debated. Since the speakers are men of very different beliefs who have been active in various phases of political life, the aim of a well-rounded program will be attained...
...definite factor. With an estimated audience of twenty-four millions of readers, the Hearst editorials control a deal of American voters. Without the information and stimulation, even though it be subversive, revealed in Hearst publications, the researcher of 1950 might, for instance, be at a loss to understand some of our modern unintelligent legislation...