Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down last week to the not-so-arduous 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...
...hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back and other injuries, and a little thing like this does not bother me." Two days later he took a flying examination, became the first U. S. Governor to get a license to pilot an autogiro...
...settle an argument, will you please let me know the make of this automobile? I hesitate to bother the Senator at this critical time and Mrs. Borah is not sure of the answer...
...Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations in the organic chemistry field, and they stuck to their subjects...
...Gymnasium is on Cambridge Street, across from Phillips Brooks House, and was used during 1934-35 by students in the Law School and only for restricted periods. This arrangement turned out to be an unnecessary bother, and the building has been closed this college year...