Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approved his enterprise, Congressman Dickstein replied: "We are going ahead with the inquiry. You can draw your own conclusions. . . . The revelations will shock the nation, as did those of the Captain Boy-Ed and von Bernstorff episodes in the days when Fate was pushing our country to the threshold of World War participation...
...years of age, on the threshold of the exit from life, ready to meet my Maker," Henry Martyn Leland was still fighting Henry Ford. When the founder of both Cadillac Motor Car Co. and Lincoln Motor Co. died the next year his cause passed into the hands of his son and his grandson. For a decade this "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry," who had made rifles in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal during the Civil War and Liberty motors in his Lincoln plant during the World War, tried to make Henry Ford acknowledge an obligation not to himself...
...enfiefed barn before the first of the month. The point they miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able...
...Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round out the Herculean task of setting U.S. industry on its feet by mid-November. With the cotton, oil, steel and lumber codes completed and the coal and automobile codes on the threshold, the outlook was hopeful...
...they separated. Mr. Hoover going to the President's room to sign bills, Mr. Roosevelt to the Military Affairs Committee Room down the same hall to kill time. Louisiana's Long, spying the new President, started to sweep in upon him blatantly, changed his mind at the threshold, tiptoed away. Mr. Roosevelt was restless to get going. Ten minutes before noon he moved down the corridor toward the Senate, only to be stopped at the door, told that it was not yet time for his entrance. "All right, we'll go back and wait some more...