Word: optimists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rules can be broken. All rules have been broken. However, I am enough of an optimist to accept the new agreement between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to head off the spreading corruption of inter-collegiate athletics at its face value," Tunis said yesterday...
...real filibuster needs 15 men.*Last week Washington observers gave the Borah anti-repeal forces a minimum of 25 men, a maximum of 40. Therefore Jimmy Byrnes knew he had the most important thing-the votes-in the bag. But well he knew that only such a magnificent optimist as Franklin Roosevelt could seriously believe that 435 brass-tongued, leather-lunged Congressmen would meekly report to Washington, legislate one bill, then go quietly home in a time of crisis. Byrnes said nothing, silently agreed with Bennett Clark that the Congress, once called, would stay for the duration of World...
...Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist by nature. Something is bound to happen." But for the first World War's great profiteer and patriot, World War II came 18 days too late...
Meanwhile that incurable optimist, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, announced in Denver that Labor's warring leaders will also be at peace within a few months. John Lewis' declaration to the contrary last fortnight, said Miss Perkins, was "by no means a conclusive statement...
...matters when he served as adviser to the Yugoslavian Government in 1927-28. Serbs appreciated his advice, but continued to oppress Croats, Macedonians, Hungarians. "That cured me," Beard says. He thinks Europe is just a big Balkans, that Americans can never solve Europe's problems. A long-term optimist, Beard believes that Fascism cannot come to the U. S. "Democracy," says he, "is a cause that is never won, but I believe it will never be lost...