Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they doubt that the sensational maneuver by which it had been accomplished was a single-handed display of the Garner political acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner "rodeo" tactics, gathered to congratulate him and each other. Across the chamber, Senator Guffey was still flushed and angry. The Vice President walked over to console him by suggesting jovially that if he had served in the House during the Garner...
...reference books demonstrating the need for protecting U. S. refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi and ex-Congressman-Lobbyist Loring Black of New York, both respected by their ex-colleagues, shouldered the contact work. A dozen lawyer-lobbyists and refiner-lobbyists, headed by General Counsel H. Beach Carpenter, stood ready at all times to see that the Congress did not lack for convincing information. Why, demanded the lobbyists, enlarge an industry off-shore when the same industry was at 62% capacity on the continent...
...like nearly all of its predecessors was written by Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, not elderly (38), not eccentric, but melancholy and increasingly troubled about the world. It was his curtain speech in The New Yorker. He was going away on a year's leave-of-absence, maybe a dozen years, to give himself time to think about progress & politics, whether to get out of their jumpy wake or try to catch up with them. He will probably consult with his melancholy colleague, James Grover Thurber, who is now in Europe sending back an occasional piece to The New Yorker...
...November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had captured him 90 miles away in the surrounding Ituri Forest, a jungle so dense that only a pygmy can penetrate it. Delightedly the Buta brothers caught up the little animal...
...Corp. -published June quarter earnings. Without strife or struggle Big Steel came to terms with John L. Lewis late last winter, and if it had any complaints on the subsequent behavior of the steel union, it kept them strictly to itself. While "Little Steel" was fighting Labor on a dozen bloody fronts, Big Steel piled up the biggest first-half profit in seven years-$64,000,000, quadruple the figure for the same period of 1936. With part of these profits the U. S. Steel directors paid up the last arrears on their 7% preferred stock, making dividends...