Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want is some help to pull my canal out of the dumps. It won't take but a fraction of what it did to "rescue" the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, TIME, July...
...past five or six years I have done as much studying of the map of this State as anybody in this State. I know the possibilities and I want to assure you that your Government in Washington is not forgetting your existence or your problems. We are trying in every way we possibly can to get more people into this State, to develop its resources for future generations who are going to live in the State...
...rivals taunted him with having paid no poll tax he re plied: "No politician in Texas is worth $1.75." When they called him a "carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that if he did not get nominated by the required majority, Lee O'Daniel's vote total would be one of the two biggest and put him in the run-off primary. Meantime, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel said soberly...
...Boarding the President's train like scores of other Congressmen, Representative Maury Maverick of San Antonio, unlike scores of other Congressmen, frankly gave his reason for doing so: "I like the President, and he likes me, and I want something." What Mr. Maverick wanted : help against hot-tongued Paul J. Kilday, close at his heels for the 20th District House nomination...
...latest, is Caldwell in character, Wodehouse in plot. Mrs. Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents but no war, no news...