Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest week in a President's year is the one in which Congress adjourns. Franklin Roosevelt sensed that last week was the week. The fumes of adjournment, like the fragrance of a steaming cup of coffee, ascended into his nostrils, and he was the essense of amiability as he kept business shuttling over his desk in anticipation of the pleasurable moment when the cup would touch his lips, when the first session of his second Congress would pass into history, having given him virtually everything he asked, denied him nothing important save the World Court...
...microphones before him on his desk, he spoke to the Young Democrats of America. When he finished he called the Capitol again. The news of adjournment was not so good. It got worse. In the Senate the matter of cotton loans was the slip that had come between cup...
...make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this as the way to get home, passed a hard & fast resolution to adjourn at midnight. But as twilight set in the President learned that an unpleasant fly was buzzing in his adjournment cup- Huey Long. The Senator from Louisiana was roaring that the poor farmers had been betrayed, said he would keep roaring until midnight, killing the $93,000,000 deficiency bill for Social Security, which had been caught in the cotton battle (see p. 10). He kept his word. A little after midnight...
...Pennsylvania Railroad. He was tied for first place in his school in scholarship. He was president of the student council in his senior year, was associate editor of the student year book, was an officer of the Latin club and the discussion club, was winner of the annual wrangler cup contest, was chief writer for the student year book, played leading roles in school dramatics, and received honorable mention this year in the Forum magazine inter-scholastic national poetry contest...
...steeplejacks and women athletes playing for their country, Helen Jacobs and Mrs. Wightman's protege, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, began edging their team up by winning the first doubles match against Miss Stammers and Freda James. The next afternoon Mrs. Fabyan, who always plays better in the Wightman Cup series than anywhere else, continued her good work by beating Phyllis Mudford King and when Helen Jacobs was through with Dorothy Round, 6-3, 6-2, the U. S. needed only one more point for the series. It was up to Mrs. Arnold to get it in her match with...