Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover for his public behavior during the Depression. The Republican Party was blamed for "encouraging a vast speculative boom." Its 1928 promises of prosperity were skillfully bracketed with the actualities. Empty White House prophecies on recovery were cited. The G. O. P. assertion that the business collapse was world-wide was derided. Summing up, Nominee Roosevelt declared the Hoover Administration "encouraged speculation and overproduction . . . attempted to minimize the crash . . . forgot reform." Picking phrases out of the Hoover acceptance speech, Governor Roosevelt continued: "Now I believe in the intrepid soul of the American people; but I believe also in its horse...
...behind a huge flat-topped desk, flanked by legal aides. Before him, looking small and subdued was "Jimmy" Walker, the first Mayor of New York ever to be summoned to the Capital to answer ouster charges.* To one side sat elderly Samuel Seabury, a faint smile on his wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous public welcome on his arrival, Counsel Seabury remarked: "So did Tweed." Not ten minutes after...
...Constitution Hall to deliver a speech opening his campaign for reelection. Some 4,000 admiring friends sat before him; countless millions listened over the largest political radio hook-up ever attempted (160 stations). When the Widow Roosevelt entered, the audience stood and cheered. She responded with a wide gesture of embrace. The President had a bunch of red roses handed to her. "Simply and Plainly." President Hoover was given a nine-minute ovation by his enthusiastic followers. Thereafter their applause constantly interrupted his speech. Sometimes it was real and spontaneous after he had worked up to a major point. More...
...became optimistic. From optimism some of us went to overexpansion and from overexpansion to reckless speculation. . . . Then came retribution. . . . New blows rained upon us. ... The world-wide storm rapidly grew to hurricane force. . . . Most Gigantic Program. "We met the situation with the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. . . . Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic. We have maintained the financial integrity of our government. ... As a nation we have paid every dollar demanded of us. ... We have provided methods and assurances that there shall be none...
Proponents of liberal Federal care for veterans argue that a wide open U. S. medical kit is sound social service by the Government, that it also is prudent business sense. The veterans carry Government insurance policies worth hundreds of millions. Every year the Government collects premiums on those policies. The longer the policyholders live or avoid incapacities, the more premiums the Government collects, the less expensive will be the final insurance payments...