Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shelved in committee its $407,855,600 Rivers & Harbors (pork) bill, because on second thought it hadn't the heart to spend that much money ($324,000,000 more than the House voted) and didn't want to give Franklin Roosevelt such a set-up for a veto...
...overzealous friends but, embarrassed by talk in the U. S Senate, ordered the Indiana board's Federal funds cut by the amount the pamphlet's printing cost, said he believed it had been prepared before he took office. Cried he: "God knows I don't want any Federal money spent in promoting me personally...
While the struggle in Spain was between the old-line feudalists that have long governed the country and the new-fangled Fascists who now want to control it, on the broader international scene the issue was essentially one between the Rome-Berlin Axis and the British-French Peace Front. The Monarchists have always been pro-English; the Falangists are ready to sign an alliance with Germany and Italy. Passing British-owned Gibraltar on an Italian cruiser recently, Minister of the Interior Serrano Suñer was heard to mutter that the Rock's days of "disgrace" were numbered...
...economic plan, what was being tried out was a form of "insulation" as distinguished from "isolation." "New Zealand does not seek isolation from the rest of the world, and least of all from the United Kingdom," he wrote. "What we do want is to guard our people as best we can against the disastrous fluctuations that have hitherto marked our economy...
...room, and spices his profanity with the Bible, Shakespeare and law. He spills out figures, dates, technical facts, historical parallels. When the argument grows hot his eyes get hawklike and his stubborn upper lip stiffens. If an opponent wilts under his fire, Willkie is disgusted. He doesn't want the argument...