Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR STATEMENT IN TIME, FEB. 27 "DISGRUNTLED DING RESIGNED" SHOULD BE CORRECTED. NEITHER AM I DISGRUNTLED NOR DID I RESIGN FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION. ... IN PASSING ALONG THE PRESIDENCY WE HOPED TO ESTABLISH A TWO-TERM PRESIDENT AND AVOID STIGMA OF A ONE-MAN SHOW...
...only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there, and let seniority take its course." He grasped time's forelock just once, when he went to the Texas Legislature for the single purpose of carving a new Congressional District, an area about the size of Mississippi along the sparsely-populated U. S. bank of the Rio Grande south and west of San Antonio. He promptly got himself elected from that District in 1902 and so impressed himself upon his constituents that in 30 years he was never seriously opposed for the seat. Even when...
...object if his becoming a candidate consolidates a group to nominate another who represents Garner's ideas of what the Democratic nominee should be? Jim Farley, who controls most of the national Democratic machinery, can be seen playing along with old Mr. Garner (or old Mr. Hull) because he believes in their sanity and because as No. 2 man on the ticket with either of them he might become the first Roman Catholic President...
...could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with C. I. 0. that jurisdictional rows should be settled after reunion, said he might "go along" with John Lewis' Congress. For this there was some reason. Long jealous of their independence, many railway brothers now look with favor on unity. Reason: they need help in opposing railroad consolidations at the cost of railroad jobs...
Walking encyclopedias who spout names and dates and other people's theories are plodding along today in the field of social sciences according to Professor Mather in a recent interview on concentration and distribution. Natural sciences not social sciences teach the student methods of thought and analysis and give him the tools to work out problems under his own steam. This is not a reflection upon the intrinsic merits of the social sciences as a field of concentration, but rather the attack points an accusing finger at the manner in which social sciences are being taught at Harvard...