Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proceedings of the U. S. Congress have been broadcast on special occasions-President Hoover's speech on Washington's Birthday, 1932; the Coolidge Memorial service last January: the first day of this year's special session. Plans are afoot, but strongly opposed, to install permanent broadcasting equipment in both House end Senate...
...laid north of Point Barrow, Alaska. Chee-Ak comes courting Kyatuk as winter seems to break. The sanguine tribesmen have a food orgy. They are stupefied with blubber when winter suddenly closes in again. As the polar storm screams monotonously Chee-Ak suggests that they starve afoot. According to tribal routine they seal the aged into their igloos to die. Kyatuk's father is so left but Kyatuk protests. Chee-Ak backs her up. The tribe's offended gods dog the march with bad luck, nearly crushing them all in the polar icepack, until Kyatuk's father...
...there. To Roy Robertson's picketers went the police order: "Keep out of the plaza, stay off the grass, keep moving." Leader Robertson obeyed. Back & forth behind a soiled U. S. flag filed his men on the far side of the black expanse of asphalt. Food was served them afoot, including 1,000 sandwiches contributed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Up & down his thin column paced Robertson, exhorting his men in a voice croaky with fatigue. Shoes came off, blistered feet padded doggedly on the hot "pavement. After the first all-night march exhaustion threatened to break the line. Robertson...
...battle to frame legislation to curb speculation on Federal Reserve credit. The first draft of his bill sent bankers flocking to Washington to condemn it as deflationary. The second draft drew sharp criticism from the Federal Reserve Board itself. Senator Glass charged that there was a bankers' conspiracy afoot to kill his bill. The third draft which went favorably to the Senate floor last week constituted a series of changes and compromises to make the measure generally acceptable to the financial fraternity...
...anyone who scans newspapers from dozens of colleges all over the country, it is apparent at once that there is a universal movement afoot to effect a new form of student government which will not only care for the social needs of students but scholastic and welfare problems as well. The development of large student bodies with multiplied problems has rendered governments by a handful of aggressive campus politicians obsolete...