Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury spokesman: "There is no use disguising the fact that the British cannot pay the entire sum due. To proceed on any other basis would be foolish." From Sir Ronald Lindsay: "Cancellation might come into the discussion, but it will go out again just as quickly, if I understand the feeling...
...Hitler movement claims to be a popular movement, sponsored by the overwhelming mass of public opinion. It alleges that its only opponents are Communists, internationalists, pacifists. Socialists and Jews. You have to know something of the origins of this Hitler movement to understand it for what it really is -a sinister, well-planned conspiracy on the part of the former ruling classes of Germany to regain the power they lost when they lost...
...will have to be put in a corral. . . . There are hotheads who think that results can be obtained by noise or violence; there are insidious voices seeking to instill methods or principles which are wholly foreign to the American form of Democratic government. . . . The overwhelming majority of the workers understand, as do the overwhelming majority of the employers of the country, that this is no time to seek special privilege, undue advantage, or personal gain because of the fact of a crisis...
Ferguson (Alexander Kirkland) has a bad day of it all around. His rich fiancée (Margaret Barker, a striking blonde with a thick Colony Club accent) gives him to understand that he must choose between dedicating his life to medicine and research, or living with her in the comfort of a Parkavian practice. At the critical moment, a little student nurse impulsively surrenders herself to Interne Ferguson...
...Roosevelt had the temerity to tell us he believed neither in our desire to achieve financial soundness nor in the possibility of defending our gold standard. He hopes we will resort to inflation. He is unable to understand the repugnance felt by all social classes in France to the attitude of financial drifting which would lead to inflation. But action is necessary. "Let us not forget that since April, 1932, successive governments have solicited 32,000,000,000 francs in new bond issues. We cannot continue to live like privledged sons on borrowed money...