Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never made any such unwarranted and high-handed proposal," cried Miss Perkins, maintaining that she merely urged the Government to use the power of subpoena to bring about a face-to-face conference...
...have a hoof in the telephone business. Especially in the transoceanic radio-telephone service. . . . Automobiles are not allowed within a mile of the Platanos receiving station antenna, lest the magnetos might cause interference. So the technical staff who live all the time at the radio station have horses to bring in supplies and to get in and out to the highway themselves. . . . Horses cause no radio interference. . . . The most profitable aspect of transatlantic telephony for the I. T. & T. up to now has been the sale of the children of these horses...
...effort was made to conceal the fact that this mass outing had any other than one principal purpose: to bring back to Washington a Party more united in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt. For by last week the President himself had registered the fact which observers had noted: that although he has not quarreled with his Party leaders, a rift has opened between them. First major cause of that rift was his Supreme Court enlargement proposal, which many did not like. Last week Washington was still shaking its head over the sharp words of the report with which the majority...
...early in the week to confer with Secretary of Labor Perkins on the idea of appointing a Federal mediation board. She, a Joan of Arc to many a worker, was eager to do so, but Franklin Roosevelt had wanted to give Ohio's Governor Davey a chance to bring peace locally, as Michigan's Murphy had done in the motor strikes. Meantime, while Governor Martin Davey tried and failed, Franklin Roosevelt personally and conversationally arbitrated the central issue of the steel war, unmistakably indicating the course that any mediation by his representatives would take. This was just...
...Monroe's Mayor Mr. Hoffman flashed an offer to "bring a group of peaceably inclined but armed and well-equipped reliable citizens to aid you in defense of your city." This seemed imperative, said the Congressman, in view of the "yellow streak" evidenced by Michigan's Governor Murphy. To his secretary back home he wired: "Have reliable citizens who are willing to go to Monroe . . . leave name, address, telephone number, list of arms, tents, and cots at office. Have Carl [his son] locate 200 rounds twelve-gauge No. 1 chilled [shot] 100 rounds 30-30 automatic." Mr. Hoffman...