Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would accept my ad, there is a still more important question-what would be the cost of said ad? Here is the ad I would want...
...Secretary of the Interior Ickes: "If the reactionaries in the Democratic Party want a real test of President Roosevelt's strength with the people, I suggest that they continue to work for a situation which will result in the people being given opportunity to vote directly on ... President Roosevelt and his policies. There can hardly be any doubt what the answer of the people would be."† ¶ Senator Pittman of Nevada: "I have inherent prejudices against a third term, but between Ickes and a third term, I'll take a third term...
...Administered by States, Workers' Education suffers badly from decentralization, which is nevertheless what WPA officials as well as educators (fearing charges and reality of dictatorship) want to maintain...
...find its first general manager, British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. inserted a want ad in a technical paper. That was in 1922 and John Charles Walsham Reith answered the ad, got the job. Since then the company has become The British Broadcasting Corp., has grown to overwhelming imperial importance. Director-General Reith got a knighthood and now a new $50,000 post as director of Imperial Airways...
...appointment, he told the press: "I am not director-general until October and I hope to be in cold storage until then." Jumping to the conclusion that this meant that he would continue the Reith tradition of aloof frigidity, the Daily Mail snapped: ''We do not want any more Sphinxes at Broadcasting House. The BBC is an organization paid for and designed for the ordinary listener and is not an Egyptian desert...