Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge jaw bent into an amiable grin...
That there was a direct connection between the bargain and the New York mayoralty nobody doubted. Last week the question of whether the city would elect a new Mayor in November was before the State Court of Appeals. Tammany seemed as bent as ever upon putting "Jimmy'' Walker back in City Hall. Citizen Walker, stranded aboard the Italian Liner Rex at Gibraltar (see p. 15) exclaimed: "My political future is at stake.'' This week Tammany is to hold a nominating convention, on the eve of which "Jimmy" Walker was supposed to arrive triumphantly like Napoleon from Elba to be renamed...
Hoosier birth (1867) gave Graham Phillips a natural bent toward politics and writing. College friendship with an ambitious young backwoodsman named Albert J. Beveridge settled him down, helped him choose the goal which he pursued with solemn fixity to his death. The years of reporting and editorial writing under the late great Editors Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were a time of learning weapons, storing mental ammunition. As a friend afterward wrote, "He believed that more people would read intelligently and heed the warnings and lessons which he felt inspired to offer through the medium of novels, than they...
...cash at once. The cry for cash arose in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Texas, California and a score more. Speak ers against the Bonus were roughly booed to silence. There was money to be had in Washington and legionaries were bent on getting it. It was hard to make them see why railroads and banks could get hundreds of millions while jobless, hungry veterans got not a penny. Last week 35 States, controlling 1,063 of the convention's 1,415 votes, were Bonus-pledged...
...defense of the Administration the following points are made: 1) The B. E. F. had no constitutional right to remain in Washington after Congress adjourned. 2) Veterans were ejected from Government buildings needed for an improvement program which would increase employment. 3) Rioting was started by Communists and criminals bent on revolution. 4) The Army was not summoned until the police had lost control of the situation. 5) Dynamite was found in the Anacostia camp. 6) Many in the B. E. F. were not veterans but hoodlums and bums with forged discharge papers. 7) The troops were humane, did their...