Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose powder-puff head evolves enough publicity stunts for a Hollywood jazzster, last week got into the newspapers by suddenly calling to his valet during a rehearsal: "Teddy, bring me my horse!" Valet Teddy trotted out with a wooden buck draped in a blanket and fitted with a shiny new English saddle. Stokowski's men tittered as Trombonist Charles Gusikoff started to p1ay "Horses, Horses, Horses...
...more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated 600 German newspapers. In Hamburg alone four papers gave up last week. And in Berlin "Auntie Voss" expired too, with one last muffled peep...
Just who thought of the novel idea of writing this blanket consent in advance theory into the laws themselves is not generally known, though the authorship is attributed to the so-called "young intellectuals" who came here and introduced into the drafting of laws many ideas which members of Congress accepted in the belief that the President wanted them embodied in the statutes...
...enforced by the courts without a tremendous stretch, made under strong administrative pressure, and the strength of administrative pressure is a fact that can only be politically determined. If it can really be enforced at all, it can be enforced by an executive power under a blanket mandate of the people; and the attempt to enforce it must be made under the supposition that it will court industrial defiance, not only of particular provisions, but of the government itself...
...Delimitation of the Commission's powers instead of the blanket power now provided. But its authority to regulate over-the-counter markets will be widened...