Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Franklin Roosevelt's State cabinet. He and Boss Kelly of Brooklyn, Boss Sheridan of Queens and Boss Fetherston of Richmond agreed on a ticket. When Tammany met it was split into at least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name his own candidate for mayor even in his own borough. By compromising with one faction he was able to beat the third which was in favor of bending the knee to the New Deal and the leaders of the other boroughs and accepting their ticket. Then...
...country. I do not want to discuss the provisions of the pending bill. I want to direct your attention, however, to the havoc which this bill is now working in the solidarity of the Nation. . . . There is not enough left in this controversy to justify the hurt and the danger of what we are doing. ... As soon as we take the lash from above the heads of these judges over there, some more of them will retire. ... If these advisers who are counseling the President to force that bill into this House under pressure which they may be able...
...there was no violence of consequence in Johnstown. Where three others had fumbled, Governor Earle had made a putout. Last week he justified the Cambria shut-down by saying: "In this crisis the choice to be made was lives or dollars. I chose lives. . . ." Last week, the immediate danger to lives having disappeared, he was able without inconsistency to lift martial law and allow the mill to reopen (see p. 9). This indicated that his original step was an emergency measure for public safety and rebutted the charge that he had exceeded the powers of his office. This week...
...zinc sulphate spraying should be repeated for three consecutive days, then once every two weeks while danger of infantile paralysis prevails in the community. The treatment destroys the sense of smell for a few days and may cause headaches, but is otherwise undisturbing...
...They are an awful danger," said Commissioner O'Keeffe, "and I am not going to have any citizens killed if it can be avoided. I wonder if Mr. Epstein would like to camp under the statues without protection...