Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lobbyists generally prey on Senators. They are fatter, more influential prey than Representatives. Last week Senators- five of them as a special investigating committee-began to prey on lobbyists. Witnesses winced and twitched uncomfortably as Senators Caraway, Walsh of Montana and Borah took the lead in uncovering their undercover work...
Lobbyist Eyanson took the stand but could add little to the story his employer had told the day before. He could see nothing wrong in the "service" he rendered. So evasive was his testimony that Senator Walsh charged him with deliberately developing a "feeble memory."
Teetering on a dilemma was British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald last week. He had been persuaded to address the American Federation of Labor's convention at Toronto. Militant crusader for his Labor party, he faced the militantly non-partisan A. F. of L. Nimbly he kept his verbal...
Most people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing...
In the ballroom next morning there were eulogies. Cried Banker Delacroix's colleague, Belgian Delegate Louis Franck, "He died like a soldier on the field of battle, but more happily than a soldier, for he fell not in cruel struggle but in the service both of his country and...