Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...striking workman is just as fond of turkey dressing as any time-card puncher. Labor Department Trouble Shooter James F. Dewey perked up, indicated the strike might be settled in time to get workmen back to plants this week; later unperked, once more got gloomy. Big union hope: to get men back to work soon enough for them to get the price of turkeys. Big company hope: to get production started again so that Chrysler executives can eat their turkeys with good appetite...
...Council, headed by each country's chief of State and chief of war, held a meeting to ratify the Simon-Reynaud agreements. Within three months, warring Britain and France had reached greater financial and trade solidarity than they reached in three years last time. * Gone was any German hope of splitting the Allies asunder...
...shocked by the international disorders of this, her second, World War. Thrifty and patriotic, she must hang on to her and her country's fortunes to the last drop of her Dutch blood. Helpless, about all she can do is keep one face East, one face West, and hope...
Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura began to think of a "permanent arrangement." Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma called correspondents in to tell them: "We are anxious to settle pending questions and we hope that Russia reciprocates our desire in all sincerity." Domei News Agency, which plays Little Sir Echo to the Foreign Office, advocated concluding a non-aggression treaty with Russia "without paying the slightest attention to displeasure felt and loudly voiced by Britain and the U. S." This week Ambassador Smetanin had an audience with the Son of Heaven, H. I. M. Hirohito...
...celebrate the golden jubilee of Barnard College, Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve asked visiting notables to review their adventures in scholarship, to show students that "It's fun to use your mind." English Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson of Smith College remembered her elation at discovering the "Conway Letters" (detailing the romance of a Cambridge University philosopher and a beautiful young viscountess) in a chilly Cambridge library: "I wore all the clothes I owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly...