Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, thinking of the whey, may well have grinned at this remark, feeling sure that in the present struggle between economizers and spenders, the economizers cannot win a substantial victory. For $150,000,000 is only a drop in this year's $9,500,000,000 budget-and the corollary of a Permanent Body of Unemployed is a Permanently Unbalanced Budget...
...island usable for planes. His real purpose was clarified by his secretariat, which approvingly referred to Columnist Walter Lippmann: "Congress should authorize the fortification of Guam, and then the State Department should invite the Japanese to discuss the question." (A U. S. threat to fortify Guam helped to win Japan's agreement to the 5-5-3 naval ratio and the stipulation against further fortifications in the Pacific which were embodied in the Washington Treaty...
...Last year 102,000 contestants entered their catches. A barefoot boy with a 10? rod, a trailer tourist who goes out on a $2-a-day party boat and an elegant sportsman with a $100 rod and a $1,000 reel have each an equal chance to win some of the $15,000 in prize money. The No. 1 prize is the Miami Beach Rod & Reel Club's silver statuette awarded to the angler who lands the biggest sailfish...
This drew hearty applause. But it remained for Manufacturers Trust's dignified Harvey Dow Gibson to win the ultimate in stockholder encomiums. When he concluded a lengthy explanation of the banking drought by expressing the belief that "there is, as we enter the new year, less cause for pessimism than there has been for some time," an unidentified stockholder rose to pay him tribute. After fumbling around for words, the hard-pressed man finally gushed: "If I were a woman, I'd say you're wonderful...
This was the first league win for the Elis, while the Capponmen have yet to break into the winning column in E. I. L. tilts. Dartmouth is setting the pace at Present with three victories in as many starts, including two over the highly touted Quakers...