Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President had played down the fact that a majority of his Commission favored immediate revision. In emphatically repudiating his Commission's suggested method for revision and in the same breath rehearsing his "own duty" to enforce the law "without equivocation or reservation," he had apparently slammed the revision door shut in his Commission's face. The Commission had reported Wet. The President had plumped Dry?more squarely than he ever plumped since entering politics. What did it all mean...
...specific plan of revision suggested by the Commission," that he was still open-minded on other proposals. The White House endeavor to make President Hoover seem less Dry was carried further when Secretary Walter Newton assembled newsmen and solemnly explained?anonymously?that the President had been "misrepresented," that the door was not closed to other Wet ideas. Joining in the effort to "explain" the President's position was his good friend, Journalist Mark Sullivan, who wrote this asininity: "A [President] cannot well be in a position of enforcing an existing law with one hand while with the other hand...
Died. Dr. Richard Bishop Moore, 59, dean of science at Purdue University, one-time (1919?23) chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From...
...frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece, came over for a London season, and the equally desirable Kitchie Valentine paid a visit to Berry's next-door neighbor, changes came fast & furious. Engagements, false beards, gunmen, a copper mine, burglary, wedding bells are all Wodehumorously manipulated...
Boston University is probably the most liberal institution of higher learning in New England. It offers the "open door" policy to all students; it is not prejudiced against any religion...