Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, though not in theory. Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was only member of the Cabinet not invited. While the Gridiron dinner was in progress. Mrs. Roosevelt gave Miss Perkins a party-for-ladies-only at the White House. In an exuberant moment Major, the Roosevelt police dog and only male present, nipped Madam Senator Caraway of Arkansas on the arm. ¶ At work last week was President Roosevelt on his three last special messages to Congress which he hopes to get adjourned about June 1. If it should dally longer at the Capitol, he was expected to raise...
...with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon him, he is no more content with the street, the passers-by in their bright clothes, the scented dust that fills...
...turn of the Century, practiced law, plunged into state politics. He served two inconspicuous terms in the House before going to the Senate in 1927. His first love is Oklahoma oil, his second, more money for everyone. The 71st Congress ended in failure and confusion because of his dogged filibuster for a Senate inquiry into the oil industry. He ardently embraced the Bonus bill because its payment called for fiat money. He likes to roll the word "Revolution!" off his tongue, put on overalls for news photographers, talk about the "under dog." No ranter, he visits bankers...
...Francisco, where he delighted in treating the composing room crew at a bar. At present he is in Los Angeles, ostensibly "learning the game from all angles." But flying (at which he is fairly expert) and fast motoring he finds more diverting. Currently he is very much "in the dog house" with The Chief, who did not like his dalliance and divorce...
...cinema. Friends told him the way to do it was to write a book. He wrote a book of short stories in two weeks, paid to have it printed, waved it in producers' faces when asking for a job. He and Director Malcolm St. Clair managed famed Police Dog Rin Tin Tin. They got work with Warner Brothers by acting out their stories, taking turns impersonating Rin Tin Tin. Small, sharp-faced Zanuck quickly progressed to a successful series of boxing stories; in three years he was studio dictator. When Warner Brothers merged with First National, Darryl Zanuck...