Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years and eight months longer, that this is a leaderless land? The President of the United States is the voice of America, if. America has any voice at all. He is the leader in America, if America has any leader at all." It was 5:45 in the afternoon and spectators were peering down from the galleries into the shadowy old room. It was a moment which called for Patrick Henryesque flamboyance, and patriotic Mr. O'Connor sawed the air with both hands while supplying...
When Premier Blum next day entered the Senatorial Bastille, all his bridges had been burned by the "dotards" demonstration of the afternoon before. Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister, took the floor and declared that those of Leon Blum's proposals which were not "pure inflation" were measures which he had himself advocated to be carried out by a Cabinet more representative of France than the Popular Front. "When I proposed them, Mr. Premier," said old Caillaux. "you said you would as soon have a king in France as what you are asking...
...stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether she was in Chicago in 1933 she responded: "I don't know where I was three weeks ago, much less in 1933." Before the afternoon was over Miss Brice had slyly played her hole card. When she was asked what commission is usually paid to an agent, Miss Brice replied: "I'd have to look that up. And you have to have a license to be an agent, too. I only said that because...
...followed by coronation of a Smelt King & Queen. Next day jamboreers jammed banquets, watched smelt-eating contests, sang an official smelt-jamboree song, learned to dance "the smelt run," a cross between the shag and the big apple. At week's end the festival wound up with an afternoon parade and a mammoth bonfire at a nearby river. To this last flocked natives and visitors alike, armed to the ears with butterfly nets, bird cages, sieves, kitchen strainers, washtubs and burlap bags, for the season's wildest smelt...
...when Depression was at its blackest, the President called a Cabinet meeting where he was reported to have said that he would favor letting the roads go "through the wringer" to reduce top-heavy capitalizations were it not that large insurance companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided against the outright subsidy proposed last fortnight by Railway Labor's George Harrison. Subsidies are hard to stop, said the President. What if, for example, the Government had undertaken to subsidize trolley cars ten years ago when that industry went...