Word: contend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Meyer's powerful eight which won over M. I. T. and Princeton boats is paying its own way. At Henley it will have to contend with a strong Kent School crew which is being presented a new shell by Lord Rothermere, British newspaperman...
Franco, whose own offensive has been eight weeks delayed, apparently had other troubles to contend with. All week he kept the French and Portuguese frontiers tight shut, but rumors continued to leak through: A "vast conspiracy by foreign elements" had threatened the lives of Franco & several of his officers and a large amount of cash had been stolen from the Rightist treasury at Salamanca...
After Wall Street had sizzled for a week at these cracks and all their implied threats, President Gay unburdened himself of a polite but very generalized reply. Excerpt: "I do not contend that the recent decline in market prices is to be attributed to the condition of the market to which I called attention, or indeed to any single cause. I would be less than candid, however, if I failed to say that recent market developments have confirmed my belief that in the interests of the public and the investor the question of what are wise restrictions upon the scope...
...deliberately used an unbalanced Federal budget during the past four years to meet a great emergency. That policy has succeeded. The emergency that we faced in 1933 no longer exists. I am fully aware that many of our problems remain unsolved. ... I am further aware that some persons contend that another great spending program is desirable to ward off the risk of another great business depression. . . . But ... I have reached the firm conviction that the domestic problems which face us today are essentially different from those which faced us four years ago. Many measures are required for their solution...
...make no attack upon size in business, but where size is produced by the ruthless destruction of competitors and the ruthless concentration of economic control which affects the lives of millions of our people, it is idle to contend that the Government can be blind to such a condition or that the people will forever tolerate...