Word: went
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Mr. Roosevelt went south to Warm Springs, Ga., for Thanksgiving I. No sooner had he carved the turkey than he gathered the press, told them that he would pass the tax buck to Congress. Those sterling fellows, he intimated, must decide for themselves and the U. S. whether: 1) to pass a new tax bill, which in an election year is similar to harakiri; or 2) simply to go on borrowing money, thereby creating a larger deficit and running the public debt beyond the statutory $45,000,000,000 limit...
...York's Senator Wagner went further: "Everything is to be gained, and nothing is lost, by exploring every avenue for labor peace. Men of labor, the time for peace...
Both sides continued to avoid calling the strike a strike. But when 57 Dodge foundry hands (mostly Negroes) went back to work at the Dodge plant, picketing strikers were angered, bricks flew (wounding two policemen and six Chrysler employes), and Mr. Thomas indignantly went through the motions of calling his unionists-who had marched in picket lines for 51 days-out "on strike...
...Record for the most courageous, most politically inept 1940 campaign statement thus far went last week to Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. In Des Moines, Iowa, corn kernel of the country, Mr. Taft bluntly announced his wholehearted opposition to the New Deal's corn-loan policy-on the very day the Agriculture Department announced a 57?-per-bushel corn loan, thus pouring into the State about...
...soul-my wife and my everything-I thank you so much for your letters. . . . again I thank you for everything-I kiss you until you tell me to stop -I kiss your hands and everything. . . . Right after I got finished talking to you I went out and got a map of the U. S. A. and found Reno. I really did not know where it was located-I heard about it.... I found it was very far from Los Angeles and I think-my beloved darling-that you should not go there alone...