Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury men to submit their studies to Congress, tactfully replied...
...sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury men to submit their studies to Congress, tactfully replied...
...prophets were busy. New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye journeyed from Europe to Manhattan to declare "war inevitable." Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor William Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that Führer Hitler was thinking over the possibility of sudden, simultaneous moves against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich Himmler, is now said to favor a lightning war." Meanwhile...
...weeks workmen have swarmed over the battle cruiser Repulse, painting, polishing and refitting cabins, preparing her to take King George and Queen Elizabeth on their visit this month to Canada and the U. S. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced a sudden switch of plans: Their Majesties would travel not on the Repulse but on the prosaic, old, German-built liner Empress of Australia, known as the Tirpitz before she was handed over to Britain by Germany as part of reparations payment after the World...
Hays is most interested in our advance towards a socialism, achieved not by sudden revolution, but slow realization of its practicality. "Socialism in just democracy--an extension of government function made necessary by conditions under which we live a progress that has gone on for generations." Change comes about when these reforms fit into the social structure. Many of the "radical" measures of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public...