Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...industrial unemployed. The House wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President's hands, 2) other Senate amendments to specify roadwork projected in Georgia and Alabama, and to authorize payment...
...argument along this familiar line. Discursively he began: "The traditional method of adopting amendments to the U. S. Constitution is challenged. . . . Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the Appellate courts, we hope it will at least have the effect of focussing the country's thought upon the neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions. We have often wished for some statute akin to mortmain to remove the dead hand of tradition from the domain of ideas. . . ." Putting aside "the stereotyped method of constitutional interpretation and construction" and the judicial principle of citing superior decisions...
...salary-cropped Senators thought so, they did not say so. There of course had to be some goat to blame for this sizable deficit. Prime Minister Mussolini found a handy one in the U. S. The Wall Street crash of 1929, blamed for so much, was apparently responsible for Fascismo's troubles as well. Said...
...prosecutor slid over, the details of the kidnapping attempt, concentrated on the state of Prohibition enforcement in Finland which the evidence brought out. Taxi drivers stationed near the Stahlberg villa told of a mysterious car that had lurked about the neighborhood for several days before the Stahlbergs' abduction, thought that it was a bootlegger making his deliveries. The kidnappers themselves swore that they had received orders from General Wallenius and Colonel Kuussaari, that both were drunk at the time, so drunk that the morning after they gave the order for the abduction they had forgotten all about it, which...
Many women loved John Wesley, but for a long time he thought celibacy the only state, finally marrying a widowed shrew who brought him four ready-made children and continuous quarrels. Wesley was a missionary to the marrow, but his single attempt on the U. S. (in Georgia) was unsuccessful; England was his proper field. There he traveled 200,000 miles, preached 40,000 sermons, gathered 120,000 followers. "By 1770 whatever else people thought of Wesley, they were bound to think that he was among the most important forces of his time...