Word: copping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cop's Job. The functions of the Attorney General's office are three: i) It pays off heavy political debts (even more liberally than the Post Office) with assistant attorney generalships, U. S. judgeships,- district attorneyships. 2) It advises Congress on the constitutionality of pending legislation and defends the constitutionality of that legislation when passed. 3) It enforces the laws of the land...
When Tourist Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went for a swim at San Sebástian beach in Franco's Spain, he was tapped by a Spanish cop, who quoted Spain's antiquated new beach laws (TIME, Aug. 7), made him don a top to his bathing suit...
When a Laguna Beach, Calif. garage owner named Harold Bradley was solemnly tapped on the back by his grey-haired fellow citizen Roy M. Ropp and told: "You are The Laughing Cavalier," he neither called a cop, took to his heels, nor swung on the tapper. Like all good Lagunites, Bradley knew at once that this tapping singled him out for an honor-the honor of depicting one of the Living Masterpieces in Director Ropp's famed "Pageant of the Masters...
...Senate in 1935; Edmund Arthur Ball of Muncie, member of the rich glass-jar family; and Fred Bays, a dapper, saturnine oldtime dancer and circus man. Him they made Democratic State Chairman, to handle ballyhoo. Besides banners, bands and buttons, Mr. Bays uses tap dancers, a singing cop, contortionists. When the McNutt campaign gets going nationally, the country may see something remarkable...
...Wheeling Steel program is Little Steel's most ambitious radio venture. In the broadcasts, products like Cop-R-Loy pipe and Ductillite tin plate get a mention, but the main idea is to make the U. S.' public pals with Wheeling Steel. A far more ingratiating ambassador for Little Steel than Tom Girdler, the Wheeling Steel half-hour is also an economical adventure in employe participation. The employes boom the company's products and hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much...