Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend Plan was ready to burst, last week, into a nine-days' wonder...
...mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This he characterized as: "A miserable mess. . . . The worst show I've ever seen anywhere. . . . It's a wonder they weren't all killed...
...question inevitably arises: How long will labor be pacified? How long will it be mollycoddled into submission by pleas for peace, and vague promises for satisfaction of its demands? Labor, looking abroad at its confreres in Russia and Italy, must wonder why it is not entitled to equal consideration in America. How long can it be expected merely to wonder? Question such as these, and many others, must be met squarely by the administration if another period of violence such as that pertaining throughout the country last summer is to be avoided. Merely to inform labor in grandiose manner that...
Undoubtedly the learned scholastic acquired more real learning in his brief oceanic career than he could have in a longer time in the presidential chair and it makes you wonder now any man can call himself well-educated" until he has seen how the other fellow lives. If every captain of industry had to spend an occasional stretch in the ranks. If every Washington brain-truster had to earn his living for a time with his hands instead of his mouth, if every Phi Bete has to earn a portion of his college fees--how much better off all would...
...instance, Chairman Fletcher has not discovered anything faintly resembling a program, while at the same time he assails the administration for aimless wandering. None of his aides of the grandfather vintage, such as Mr. Ames in Maine, have faced issues squarely, not to speak of presenting them humanly. No wonder the party has been unable to raise money or supporters, and has so far shored a dismal failure...