Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With thoughts of independence uppermost in your minds, economics and other subjects must take a secondary place. The proposal to delay the decision 15, 20, or 30 years is not a plan; it is a subterfuge . . . a graveyard policy. Those opposed to independence should have the courage to admit it. Frankness may furnish information for which crocodile tears are no substitute. You are willing to pay the high cost of freedom and you will by orderly peaceful persuasion convince Americans of the justice of your cause...
...week one might have thought there was no other side-the Canadian Premier made courteous pretense that he was not offering "reprisals" to the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Tariff upping (TIME, June 2, 1930). Mr. Bennett said that Canada's depressed "infant industries" and her unemployed workers were uppermost in his mind. By protecting industries he would make jobs. Indeed, two days after his speech Premier Bennett proudly explained just exactly why he raised the tariff on wire netting (from 30% to 35%) and reduced that on steel and iron tubing (from 30% to 7 ½%). His reasons were...
...Economy continued to be uppermost in President Hoover's mind last week. The Treasury deficit rose to $984,000,000. Two departmental conferences on the Rapidan had provided savings of only $8,000,000 for next year. This seemed disheartening progress to some but President Hoover declared that he hoped before be got through to squeeze at least $125,000,000 out of the Government's expenditure sponge. To do its share the War Department announced that it would dispose of ten active Army posts, 14 inactive camps and landing fields, 29 harbor defense forts already closed down...
...opening Samson et Dalila last week all was not well with Cincinnati's Zoo Opera. Contralto Marta Wittkowska expertly bewitched her Samson who was Tenor John Sample. He in turn tore down the pillars of the temple with all the fine frenzy of an injured beast. But uppermost in many a listener's mind stayed the thought that Cincinnati might not long have its summer Zoo performances. Manager Charles G. Miller sounded the warning before the season began. The Zoo is a private venture for which the late Mrs. Mary Emery and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft once generously...
...claque (house-paid clappers) and a handful of enthusiasts flocked to the front, shouted bravos at Mezzo-Soprano Ina Bourskaya and Tenor Antonin Trantoul. The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended. Supplementary Holy Week performances were scheduled to follow. But uppermost were plans for the annual spring tour. This year's route and repertoire...