Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats straggled into the great marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, all knew that one of two members would be chosen-but far from unanimously. Since the hour Joe Robinson was found dead with a bound volume of the Congressional Record beside him, there had been fierce fighting for his job. Friends of the two men lobbied on the funeral train. President Roosevelt took sides. He wrote a letter to ''Dear Alben" Barkley which referred pointedly to the fact that Mr. Barkley was now Acting Leader. A worried afterthought was the President's assurance...
...this bill, fortunately presented by a sort of Court Jester to His Majesty the British Public. Jester Herbert has not taken lightly criticisms of his bill by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Last week he rasped harshly in his hour of triumph at the Primate of All England: "I am bound to say that I am not able-and not for the first time-to follow the workings of that great mind!" C. Prominent Protestant M. P.s such as Winston Churchill hurried with Jewish colleagues like Major James de Rothschild, M. P. to packjam the galleries of the House of Lords...
...last year. Like many professional baseballers who, because they work half days and half years, find the problem of diversion difficult and pressing, Hornsby was fond of betting on horse races. Last week, sportswriters who knew that a special clause in Hornsby's $20,000-a-year contract bound him not to let his betting interfere with his baseball, soon guessed that a difference of opinion about what "interference" meant had caused the ousting. Their guess was substantiated by Rogers Hornsby himself. His version of the ousting: When called to President Barnes's office and asked...
...first and greatest specialists in the field of obsolete securities, the over-the-counter firm of R. M. Smythe, Inc. gradually gained comfortable renown. President Smythe lined his office with bookcases full of precious old directories, bound volumes of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle and railroad almanacs from 1862 on. The more he studied old security issues the more convinced he became that owners of many forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents...
...night of Aug. 5, 1930, one Kin Hanna, owner of an inn near Jay, N. Y. had a painful experience. He and his father-in-law Matt Cobb were beaten, gagged and bound by four men who then took $750 from the till and made their getaway...