Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vain. He "reached" 15 Senators, enough to forestall his ousting, and from that time on no one in Louisiana could stand against him. After he had himself elected to the U. S. Senate, he refused to go to Washington until he could arrange to leave Louisiana bound and gagged in the hands of a Long-chosen Governor. At the Democratic Convention in 1932, he was not only Senator but Dictator of Louisiana and with his vital votes Franklin Roosevelt was nominated. But President Roosevelt refused to pay the political debts which Huey Long thought Candidate Roosevelt had contracted. So Huey...
...hunting pretenders, millhands, Negroes, intellectuals-are conscientiously fitted into the fictional picture. The result is somewhat reminiscent of an old-fashioned tableau, with symbolic figures representing Poverty lurking miserably on one side of the stage while heedless Wealth dances with frantic unconcern on the other. An imposing volume, beautifully bound and illustrated with five full-color reproductions of Artist Wight's portraits, South has much to recommend it: careful descriptions of characteristically lovely Southern scenery; sensitive evocations of feminine moods; a number of memorable conversations that are witty even if faked. But these graces are effectively nullified by Artist...
...That we protest against and declare that we will not be bound by the 'Potato Control Law,' an unconstitutional measure recently enacted by the United States Congress. We shall produce on our own land such potatoes as we may wish to produce and will dispose of them in such manner as we may deem proper...
...Into Death Valley from Red Mountain, Calif. chugged the automobile of Prospector John Backert, bound with his family of three for the Backert claim at Leach Springs, 60 miles away. Suddenly, one of the desert's rare cloudbursts swept down upon them, made a river of the road, forced the car to turn up a hillside, where it broke an axle. Well aware of their danger, Prospector Backert and Daughter Ernestine, 22, left Mrs. Backert, 51, and Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing...
...Into the open Atlantic from Bermuda sailed La Dahama, the yacht of Philadelphia Sportsman Albert R. G. Welsh, bound with a captain and crew of three for the Mediterranean. A 55-ft., two-masted auxiliary schooner, she had sailed to Bermuda from the U. S., seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...