Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murphy of Michigan"; a good word for Democratic Senator Wagner of New York: "In 1918, when I was 36 years old, I was invited to run for the Governorship of this State. ... I declined the offer. ... I did not think that I had experience and knowledge of public affairs wide enough. . . . Besides, I did not think it quite right to abandon in midstream an important public job" [Assistant Secretary of the Navy]. This was a crack at Thomas Dewey, 36, stepping out of his unfinished job as District Attorney in New York County to run against Democratic Governor Lehman...
...special inducement for private capital to enter this wide new rental market is needed-in huge chunks supplied promptly by big corporations from dormant surpluses instead of in pooled driblets as suggested by President Roosevelt-it could be provided in a variety of ways: by offering tax-free securities of local housing authorities (as at Princeton), now available in 37 States; by insuring mortgages on the properties through FHA with a limited return on the equity; by offering some degree of Federal tax exemption to private capital entering the field...
...principles, which were endorsed since many Republican standard-bearers were fully committed to such untraditional doctrines as social security, collective bargaining, farm and unemployed relief. What has been repudiated are the spending-lending program, the radically left-wing leanings of the administration, and its efforts to forge a nation-wide Tammany...
They held the Colón Hotel. Two field guns protected it, and before the guns were soldiers with machine guns and rifles, sweeping the wide avenue from end to end. As the tumult of the whistles died away, two Cadillacs driven by anarchists zigzagged madly up the street toward the guns, making 70 m.p.h., their horns screaming. Like monstrous torpedoes they plowed through the line of soldiers, charged the gun crews, piled into a wall beside them in black, blood-spattered heaps of wreckage. Their drivers were dead. But the guns were silenced...
...extreme northeast corner of Kentucky, on the south bank of the Ohio, lies Greenup County-a stretch of shaggy, greenbriered hill country, twelve miles wide and 20 miles long. Among the hill people of Greenup-great hunters, fighters, Baptists and Democrats from way back- young Jesse Stuart grew up. He lived at the head of W-Hollow, fished in Little Sandy, began to write poetry before he was out of school. "Them Stuart youngins is plum fools." said Neighbor John Hackless. "If them was youngins of mine, I'd whip their tails with a hickory...