Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be free. . . . Legal authority over the boy could not be vested in you or any other agency outside of this State by executive action. . . . After Herbert's trial was concluded and the boy delivered to the penitentiary, you entered the case, seizing the opportunity to direct nation-wide attention to your boys' home, facilitated by the sensational publicity that attended the trial." Retorted Father Flanagan: "[Governor Hartley] stepped into the gutter of ward politics. ... To me it sounds like the political mutterings of a whipped political boss. Father Flanagan's Boys' Home doesn't need publicity...
...were renting twentieth-story hotel rooms for purposes of self-destruction, the gentlemen I speak of sat sipping their brandy, blowing blue perfecto smoke to the ceiling. . . ." The fortunates, he wrote, are concealing their extravagances, keeping much of their wealth abroad, "and at the first sign of any nation-wide disturbance they would be off to foreign lands in their yachts...
...country-wide depression notwithstanding, the forty-eight members of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs trod the usual path of roses on its Christmas trip to the Middle West. A succession of Harvard Club luncheons, tea dances, dinners, concerts, and debutante balls kept the Instrumentalists busy and reduced the number of sleeping hours to a minimum...
Every year on the President's birthday thousands of Finns march merrily past his yellow Palace in Helsingfors roaring, "Maamme! Maamme! Our Land! Our Land!" To buy the President a "birthday present" money was raised this year by nation-wide subscription-on the distinct understanding that the President will donate his present to help fight tuberculosis (Finns being especially susceptible to this disease). Last week came the 70th birthday of a National Hero elected last February: President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud whom 4,000,000 Finns call Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr''). Outside the little yellow Palace with...
Immeasurably more serious was a rebuff by Dutchmen to Cubans next day in Paris, where the International Sugar Council is still vainly trying to enforce the Chadbourne plan of world wide restriction by leading sugar growers (TIME, May 18 et ante). Cuba has loyally cooperated; President Machado has thrown all his dictatorial power behind the plan. Last week the Dutch growers contended that a technicality in the Chadbourne agreement exempts "present crops" from limitation, and contended that since their crop contracts are made 14 months in advance, limitation of the Java crop would not begin until the spring harvest...