Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly found itself a partner, somewhat dazzled but quick to take advantage of its new position, with Capital and Government in the New Deal. In Washington. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, in her cocky tricorn hat, rose to tell the A. F. of L. that "thanks to the vision and courage of President Roosevelt in making possible the National Recovery Act. the present convention sees...
...keen analysis of President Wilson made this reference to Mr. Gompers in November 1917: 'If I may be permitted to do so, I want to express my admiration of his patriotic courage, his large vision and his statesmanlike sense of what has to be done. I like to lay my mind alongside of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral...
...possibilities, and of the author's past performances, it is true praise to say that the work is in degree pedestrian. Its interest and its value are the greater in that the stagnation which he predicts seemed very near and real a short seven months ago. His vision has the greater authenticity in that it contains little that is incredible and nothing that is, to us, inconceivable. In short, the work is a serious attempt, unmarred by riotous imaginings, to show, in rough outline, the endings of our present paths and the new and better ways which mankind may tread...
...kindly god intervened. As the Emperor slept a gray-bearded ancient appeared to him in a vision. The apparition stood beside the sleeper and spoke these lines...
...nuns, explaining that this was an old Italian custom signifying Joy and Peace. Two miracles are necessary for beatification. In Chicago last week appeared Sister Delfina Grazioli of Seattle who says she had four major operations before December 1925. Given the deathbed rite of Extreme Unction, she saw a vision of mother Cabrini, soon recovered. Next week in Chicago doctors were to examine Peter Smith, 12, of Manhattan. Peter Smith was blinded soon after birth, when a careless nurse washed his eyes with silver nitrate in 50% solution instead of 1%. He also contracted pneumonia. Prayers were addressed to Mother...