Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Johns Bulkley, the genial, bulky Wet Democrat who won a Senate seat in Ohio three weeks ago, last week lay abed in Cleveland breaking three important rules. He had bronchitis. He was not traveling around letting himself be seen. He had not yet found an alter ego to build him up as a candidate for the presidency...
...from the locality (until this year, labor was not included). The homes vary from three to nine rooms, cost from $3,500 to $20,000 including everything except furniture. Sears, Roebuck sells that too. Stock designs are kept for milk houses, stables, silos, summer camp bungalows. The company will alter its plans to suit, or even build to order. A prize customer was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach (paid $77,000 for the Alice-in-Wonderland manuscript) who has a Sears, Roebuck summer home at Ocean Beach...
...Commission was about to convene (next week, in Washington) to draft a report which may well alter the position of President Hoover on the issue. After 1 6 months of study it had not yet deter mined how deeply into Prohibition to delve. Commissioner Mackintosh's strong language, his robust character, indicated that there would be serious internal dis turbances if the Commission tries to side step the "guts...
...joyfully celebrating the tenth anniversary of constitutional Prohibition last winter (TIME, Jan. 27) a new and uncharted groundswell of Wet sentiment became discernible to political mariners throughout the land. To many it seemed to be a distinct tide change. How high it would flow and what channels it would alter no man knew. Wet militancy increased. Prohibition speculation again became fashionable. A Senate investigating committee disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first...
...number of deaths, especially from lockjaw which only time would get, the resulting blindness, the major and incapacitating bodily injuries, and so on. These were obtained by press clippings, but supplemented and verified by doctors and hospitals. Then, after publishing these data systematic propaganda was carried on, year alter year, by reprints to the press, to mayors of important cities, to health officers...