Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the correspondents of Washington went on a speculative spree. As discordantly as the horns of New Year's Eve their conflicting stories of what 1940 would bring rang throngh the wintry Capital, left Presidential booms busting like toy balloons, the paper streamers of old prophecies littering the streets. Correspondents said that the session of Congress would be short and asserted, with equal vehemence, that it would be long. Peering into the New Year they could see through the darkness as far as an election-it will be a lively one, said the New York Times, "in which...
...then Governor of New York; his New Year's speech for the first day of 1930 was his address to the Legislature. It was calm, unimaginative, matter-of-fact. It dealt with local issues - power rates, antiquated traffic laws, highway improvements. Last week he worked on his message to Congress. But if, like many a U. S. citizen, he looked back over the years between those speeches, it was to contemplate a period that future historians may well call the Age of Distrust. As the unsteady '20s had been the years of indifference, of wasted time and missed...
...Last week Washington correspondents hammering out their forecasts could not agree on a name for the '30s as apt as the title of the Tragic Era had been for Reconstruction. But their prophecies and backward looks combined to give the raw material that would enable future historians to characterize that decade-a purgatorial period that followed a fool's paradise, a time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn...
...This week the first political convention of 1940 opened in Washington. It was the 76th Congress, beginning its third session 306 days before the U. S. people elect a President. Its members did not forget that, on behalf of persons yet unknown, they one & all were campaigners whose votes were bound to win and lose many more votes in the great hustings to come. Conditioned by this democratic fact, they had the following work...
...Hear from and (barring miracles) vote more money to the Dies Committee, whose Red-finding Chairman Martin Dies last week was in a knockdown fight with minority committeemen. Issue: whether to include Franklin Roosevelt in the committee's wondrous list of Communist tools...