Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crisis only the night before, he made a remark which, had it been intentional, would have been a slur on the President. Asked whether Canada in an emergency might be disposed to take a united front with the U. S. in world affairs, he exclaimed distastefully, "that word 'emergency' has been kicking about here for the past seven or eight years. And it hasn't happened...
...President's assertion that "substantially the same elements" oppose his Court proposal as opposed all his liberal program, moved the genteel Times to use its equivalent for a four-letter word: "This statement is not in accordance with demonstrated facts." The Times and others pointed at 20 or more loyal Democratic Senators, at liberals such as Norris, Wheeler, Nye, at many pro-Roosevelt newspapers which now oppose the Court proposal. Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, leader of the pro-Court wing among Senate Democrats, declared: "If the President thinks that . . . those 'defeatist lawyers...
...will write you an order here and now," replied the Founder. On a small piece of paper he wrote: "Electrify the Ukraine. LENIN." This had the force of a ukase from the Tsar, and for years "electricity" used to be a magic word in Soviet Russia, orators telling everyone as Lenin did that "Electrification, plus the Soviet Power, equals Socialism!" This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received...
...trip that the U. S. Ambassador had asked questions and taken notes on costs, wages, profits, distribution and labor efficiency as figured by Soviet managers; also their sources of labor, ages of workers, percentage of women, clothing, housing, rents, hospitalization, insurance and their definitions of "Stakhanovism"-the most disputed word in Russia (TIME, March...
Last week when the Chronicle inaugurated Mrs. O'Connor's bureau, every bigwig from Mayor Angelo J. Rossi down had a good word for her as she tackled her first day's work: Advised a jobless old woman how to find a home, helped a mother control a wayward son, offered suggestions to aid a man with a brother in San Quentin, rescued the residents of a trailer camp from ousting by health officials. Starting the other half of her job, Columnist O'Connor wrote...