Word: boatload
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman James Aloysius Farley, GOP Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Liberty Leaguer Jouett Shouse, Stiff-necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...
...British have found no way to stop the smuggling. Even if a boatload of refugees is captured, the authorities are helpless, for all identification papers have been destroyed and there is no country to which they can be deported. Moreover, Secretary MacDonald's retaliatory prohibition of legal immigration may even increase the smuggling of refugees by convincing even moderate Jews that it is morally justifiable...
...settled before the property can change hands. Declining to comment upon the lien, Mrs. Kaufman arose from her bed, journeyed to New York, spent an evening with Father Divine and his angels, declared afterward that she had conveyed her property to him. Father Divine announced he would take a boatload of his followers to Newport to inspect The Castle. Meantime he said the property would be held in escrow "until any little disturbances have been obviated...
...boatload seems to have one important handicap. They have in the past found it hard to turn on the power with a low stroke. In their nip-and-tuck race with Cornell they were unable to lower the beat to a thirty-four...
Eager for unity, the convention sent Lundeberg a boatload of delegates bearing olive branches. At the hall where S. U. P. was holding its weekly meeting, they found the Norse giant himself, blocking the door. Fists clenched, he thundered at Revels Cayton, author of the unity proposal, denounced him as fink and traitor. Of the secessionists only the repentant firemen returned to the federation fold. This week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime...