Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read the Cabinet a practical political lecture on emptying their minds and exposing their plans to the Press, pointing out that the habit got New Dealers into quarrels with one another and exposed their schemes prematurely to sniping from the opposition. With this bit of good advice the President heartily concurred...
...years 32 Presidents have written 674 veto messages for trusty White House clerks to carry back to Congress. Of these vetoes only 49 have been overridden by a cantankerous House & Senate.* Last week President Roosevelt tossed the custom of the country out the window and made a breezy bit of history by carrying Veto No. 675 up to the Capitol in person and making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence...
...novelized personage that the book is hardly worth the trouble he took in filling in missing gaps and adding all sorts of anecdotes. It is not stated that the author is a descendant of the illustrious Blakeney's; indeed, his extreme adulation of them all would prove a bit nauseating if one knew him to be a relative...
...Senate suddenly responded to President Roosevelt's call for action, dismayed him by taking the bit in its mouth, speeding hell bent on its own course. Ignoring Administration "must" bills...
...Shiver expressed the convention's sentiments when he interrupted by shouting: "Brother, we just knocked 'em loose from the teat a little bit. We're gonna knock 'em all the way loose and suck a little ourselves...