Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business of getting rid of Congress. Canceling his trip to the Yale-Harvard boat races, also his week-end yacht cruise, he swept his signature across scores of bills, none of which seemed to cause him great concern. Nor did he bother to put positive pressure on Congress to block or save any important measure. Thus he had time to attend to several other matters...
...White House, but in the course of his career there were Henry Clay marches and a song called, Here's to You, Harry Clay, published with his picture on the cover and glowing words inside about "the cheerful Whig who didn't care a fig what Locos block...
Coalition. Publisher Paul Block had been pushing it for months. It had bobbed up repeatedly in political chitchat. But the proposal for a 1936 coalition ticket did not really boom until the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune plumped for it in a front-page editorial last week. Democrats actually suggested for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination were Virginia's Senator Byrd, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely, Newton D. Baker, Lewis W. Douglas. "The liquidation of the New Deal," cried the Herald Tribune, "calls for a permanent alliance of all who would keep America American...
Investigator Fritchey followed closely the Grand Jury's graveyard probe. One day, while looking over the subpoenaed books of the Crown Hill Cemetery, Investigator Fritchey, who is fond of detective stories, noted that a block of 1,400 graves had been sold for $82,000 to a Mr. Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis...
...turned his eyes for a fraction of a second. A runner flashed past to win the race by inches. The runner was Herbert Cornell. His victory gave Cornell's team five points-enough, with five more for Walter Wood's first in the discus throw, a substantial block of points for seconds, thirds, fourths & fifths, to win the team championship, 29½-to Harvard's 19 16/21 Dartmouth...