Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will surely have many readers who will be disturbed by the way credit for the Four-Power meeting in Munich today is being laid at the door of Mr. Roosevelt, and who will share my concern lest Mr. Roosevelt or some of his less astute advisers begin to conceive Wilsonian ideas about the role of America's President in saving the rest of the world from its own folly...
...Coolidge perfected this technique by inventing "a White House spokesman" to whom his words must be attributed. Last week when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to read U. S. Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also touched on taxes. It was deliberate distortion, he said, for Administration critics to say that Federal taxes are heavier than they were two, three, five years...
Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly is not up for re-election until February. But last week his campaign got under way with a handsomely printed 42-page booklet entitled Out of the Red Into the Black, The Truth About Chicago's Municipal Government. Embellished with photographs of Chicago's wonders (including five of Ed Kelly), tables purporting to show that Chicago's per-capita government cost was $53.57 compared to New York's $91.78, Boston's $88.26, it concluded that Chicago "stands in the front rank for economic administration of governmental affairs...
...outside aid." Similar sentiments were expressed in July 1937 by Leftist President Manuel Azaña, but last week New York Timesman Lawrence A. Fernsworth wirelessed from France that this time Premier Negrin meant business. In Spain, significantly added Mr. Fernsworth "the suggestion that peace negotiations may be under way is not permissible in the press or in news dispatches sent out of the country." The Leftist Government remains pledged to victory, "a formula that does not exclude victory by negotiation...
When 58-year-old Sir Miles and his second wife, beauteous, Italian-blooded, 25-year-old Lady Lampson recently found their summer villa infested with hooded cobras the ambassador determined to remove them his own way. But the native servants refused to go near the reptiles and Sir Miles's British tactics failed to chase the snakes off. Last week he admitted defeat, sent out a call for the neighborhood snake charmer...