Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cite only one example, I would remind you that the Catholic position was stated before the Committee on Interstate Commerce on May 20, 1937, not "against" but in support of Child Labor legislation then before the Committee...
...remind me of the opponents of the rail-roads in the 1830's: they too thought that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or else lay hard-boiled eggs. The same attitude prevailed when street-cars and trolleys came into widespread...
Neither naval nor military authorities in the U. S. believe Europe's totalitarian toughies would risk transatlantic invasion. But it is the Navy's job to remind them of the risk. According to latest reports published by the U. S. Navy Department (November 1938), a combined Italo-German fleet would outnumber the U. S. only in destroyers and submarines...
Within two days, four Cabinet ministers went into the countryside to remind Britons, and, by implication, the dictator nations, that the British Empire was still tough. "The British Empire is so strong that it could not be defeated. Let those ponder who say we have grown weary with age and feeble in power. So they thought in 1914. They had a rude awakening," thundered Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, at Swansea. At Durham, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon reminded that the Empire's financial strength is "an important weapon of defense" and at Leeds, Colonial Secretary Malcolm...
...faced his first issue with Congress over Relief. In asking for a Relief appropriation far larger than expected ($875,000,000 instead of some $600,000,000), he took pains to remind the Congress that this sum was only to keep WPA going as is until June 30. Let Congress appropriate that, he urged, and apply any alterations it may want to make in Relief procedure, to fiscal 1940. Said he: "The hasty adoption of legislative provisions, to be immediately effective, which radically change the present method . . . would greatly complicate the administration of the program in the coming months...