Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declined to wrap Franklin Roosevelt and his whole New Deal in a blanket endorsement, elected the Carpenters' arch-Republican William Hutcheson first vice president...
...Boston Post wired Bill, asked him to cover a post-season football game between Texas A. & M. and Centre College. The Post wanted 500 words. That day the great Bo McMillin was married, his bride sat wrapped in a blanket on the players' bench with a corsage pinned to her shoulder, and unknown A. & M. licked Centre 18-6. Bill started sending in his story, paused after 1,500 soulful words to ask whether they wanted him to stop. Back came the Post's answer: "Pour it on." So Bill sent another 1,500 words...
...With a blanket Federal regulation limiting the total enrollment of flight training courses in colleges throughout the country to 50 men, Harvard has been forced to turn away most of the 135 who are eligible for the instruction...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, however, has not yet set down any blanket prohibition of the use of tutoring schools by athletes...
State's Attorney Hugh Mead Alcorn, the man who helped send famed Murderer Gerald Chapman to the gallows, was called in. Hayes & Co. were arraigned by a Grand Jury in 1938 on a blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled...