Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Lewis' personal triumph at the Shoreham Hotel last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had...
Victory? In July the smoke of battle lifted enough to permit a survey of positions won and lost. Bull-dogged little Lord Beaverbrook, having forged into the lead, triumphantly shouted that his Express had 2,054,000 daily for the month of June-hugest daily circulation ever recorded! The Herald...
Mr. Pecora left the District Attorney's office to return to private practice with only $525 in the world. Married, father of one son, he lives on Riverside Drive, likes to play pinocle, does his best work late at night, takes regular sun-lamp treatments. As a prosecutor, he...
Joe's "trouble" in the South dogged him the rest of his life. For a while he came home, passed himself off as the hired man. When the sheriff came for him his loyal family helped him get away. Joe went West, joined the gold rush to the Black...
To the farm bill Senator Wheeler from silver-producing Montana offered an amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a...