Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry and private corporations to Governor Roosevelt's famed "forgotten man." Both relief theories are based on the same assumption, namely, that debtors are to be tided over until prices rise to restore solvency. Without that price rise either theory would obviously fail, leaving in its wake a widespread form of government ownership...
...this condition were the disastrous policies pursued by our Government since the World War. . . . Those responsible [i.e. Republicans] have ruined our foreign trade, destroyed the values of our commodities and products, crippled our banking system, robbed millions of their life savings and thrown millions more out of work, produced widespread poverty and brought the Government to a state of financial distress unprecedented in time of peace. . . . The only hope lies in a drastic change...
...ready to run on a platform declaring for resubmission of the question to the people but that he was opposed to Repeal. Senators had submitted sample planks for Resubmission but on none had Mr. Hoover placed his finger and said: "I want this and nothing else." So widespread became the talk in Washington that the President was committed to a specific proposal that the White House issued a diplomatic denial that any plank had been submitted there. This denial was instantly recognized as campaign strategy to preserve the "hands-off" impression. Only if the convention seemed headed unexpectedly toward Repeal...
...Roosevelt, if nominated, can't be elected," was a widespread sentiment upon which James A. Farley, the Governor's campaign manager, last week started to war. He predicted that at Chicago his candidate would get 691 votes on the first nominating ballot which would be increased to the necessary 770 by switches before the roll was completed. Leaping ahead to the election itself Manager Farley optimistically .declared...
Presidential elections, threat of war, champion contests in major athletics, any widespread cause of public excitement produces a falling off in the number of suicides...