Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completion-its start happily coincides with Fiorello LaGuardia's campaign for re-election-the Mayor of New York, with marked emphasis on the "I" confidently boomed. "Colonel Somervell and I will open it at Easter 1939, in time for the World's Fair." As an afterthought he added-"Why doesn't some smart guy build a hotel here...
...beside him, there had been fierce fighting for his job. Friends of the two men lobbied on the funeral train. President Roosevelt took sides. He wrote a letter to ''Dear Alben" Barkley which referred pointedly to the fact that Mr. Barkley was now Acting Leader. A worried afterthought was the President's assurance to Pat Harrison that he was neutral. Nobody was neutral. The issue was plain: Barkley & President Roosevelt v. Harrison & Friends...
...Rise and Decline of the Contract Clause" is the first lecture. Here an attempt will be made to show that a clause placed in the Constitution almost as an afterthought was by a strange process of interpretation, turned into a powerful weapon for judicial destruction of varieties of legislation to which it was never intended to be made applicable...
...Very truly yours. . . ." Despite his sternness, "Dear Jesse" extended for two months $15,600.000 of "Dear Mr. Vanderbilt's" RFC note falling due last week. But he also had an afterthought: "Dear Mr. Vanderbilt...
Busy at Leipzig last week drafting the new German Penal Code called for by Adolf Hitler, Judiciary Commissar Hans Frank said it will "contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...