Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a seventh consecutive Press conference was cancelled at the White House, correspondents predicted in print that this contact system had been abolished. The next conference was not cancelled. Explained the President: "You know I've been fairly busy recently." Then he read a mimeographed statement about signing the Home Loan Bank bill. ¶ Without fuss or feathers, President Hoover signed the Unemployment Relief Bill...
...This is the first time in more than 20 years I've made an electioneering speech. Either the people of my district have a lot of confidence in me or I fooled 'em so well in my first campaign that they've sent me back every term since then. I want to convince every honest man and woman that the power of government should be taken away from those who administer it for the benefit of a privileged few. . . . Because I demanded that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. make public its use of the people's property, the President in effect...
...deal with Herbert Hoover, I assented. I think now I may be big enough for that job, considering his weakness and vacillation. I hold the most powerful position in this Government, excepting that of the President. I accepted the vice-presidential nomination with much hesitancy for already we've whipped Hoover three times in Congress...
...admirer of the U. S., Author Priestley contrives to have his hero bored by a Cincinnati Babbitt who remarks of his library of tourist literature: "I guess I've got the most complete one in the States." More profound and more profitable than Author Priestley's knowledge of U. S. idiom is his knowledge of how to give unreal characters an air of reality by letting them sit down in out-of-the-way places to chat about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway...
With its own music the sullen temper of the crowd melted. Commander Waters was released to present to Speaker Garner a petition against adjournment. But first he went before the Capitol to announce: "I've got permission for you to use these centre steps. But you've got to keep a lane open for the white-collar birds inside so they won't rub into us lousy rats. We're Agoing to stay here until I see Hoover...