Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settling back in his chair at Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt, master politician, last week delivered to the press a lecture on political morality. It was "immoral," he said, for some 20,000 Republicans in Idaho to have voted in the Democratic primary to nominate Representative D. Worth Clark over New Dealish Senator James P. Pope (TIME, Aug. 22). Such crossing of party lines, he said, defeated the purpose of the primary system, because members of one party could pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans...
...Secretary of State Hull's stiff note in July, demanding payment by Mexico for $10,132,388 worth of farms and ranches expropriated from U. S. owners, or at least arbitration of the claims (TIME, Aug. 1), the Mexican people paid little attention. The Government of bold President Lazaro Cardenas, feeling sure that Mr. Hull did not mean business, said in its reply: 1) that the matter was not subject to international arbitration since Mexico's own laws require eventual payment; 2) that to arbitrate U. S. claims would be unfair to Mexican claimants, who have not been...
...Miss Carole Lombard." Miss Lombard's little lecture: "I gave the Federal Government 65% of my wages last year, and I was glad to do it, too. . . . Income tax money all goes into improvement and protection of the country. . . . I really think I got my money's worth...
...Grand American Handicap, where men and women shoot together, neither topnotcher won. Winner, as usual. was an obscure gunner: 45-year-old Ortello West, county highway superintendent who had been shooting at and around clay targets for 17 years but never before had won "anything worth having." The $1,000 he won last week will go a long way in his home town of Coshocton, Ohio...
Marietta, Ga. was visited by a plague of martins. The city council ordered $50 worth of owls (several dozen) in crates from Florida. By mistake they were sent to Marietta, Ohio. By the time they finally arrived in Marietta, Ga., the martins had migrated south...