Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats as well as Republicans knew precisely what Speaker Rainey meant by "left at home." The Hundred Day special session of Congress which ended last June was a rubber-stamp affair which made a stirring record for President Roosevelt but added little glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat...
...Cinemactor Tracy made this picture before going to Mexico City where he made news resulting in the cancellation of his contract by MGM. To TIME'S version of the affair (TIME, Dec. 4), Mr. Tracy telegraphed a correction as follows: "YOUR STORY ON MEXICO INCIDENT INACCURATE AND UNTRUE STOP MY REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY A FALSE CHARGE IN YOUR PUBLICATION STOP PUBLIC HAD BEEN GIVEN TRUE AND CORRECTED VERSION AND NOW YOUR LIBELOUS STORY OVERSHADOWS ALL PREVIOUS ONES STOP I REFER YOU TO LOS ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE...
Another lynching was done in Maryland last week, this time not on the ragged Eastern Shore but in the proud old city of Baltimore. The Baltimore Civic Opera Company was responsible when it put on a one-act affair called Swing Low. In it Tenor A. Roy Williams, blacked up as a Negro, was making harmless love to Soprano Elsie Craft (also in blackface) when an operatic mob appeared to drag him offstage to a hanging...
...business, and from the time he became Minister of Munitions until in 1916 he forced out the Coalition Government and got the Premiership himself, he fought a spirited battle with the War Office. He proves by the record that he was against the disastrous Dardanelles campaign and the mismanaged affair in Mesopotamia; that as early as January 1, 1915 he saw the hopelessness of the stalemate on the Western Front, and urged an attack elsewhere...
...also annotated "This is the worst thing I have ever seen in English A. Please see me at the end of the hour." The Freshman was more incensed at the unnatural grade on the paper than his discretion could bear. So he made a clean breast of the affair, including some covered references to the instructor's ability to grade...