Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans) and Matthew Wesley Clair (Covington, Ky.). There also, and in homes of Atlantic City friends, stayed the rest of the convention's 75 Negro members. Bishops Clair and Jones attended dinners and meetings of the bishops, held in private rooms at the Dennis. There was newspaper talk of embarrassments, complaints, discrimination. The convention was asked to resolve that never again should it meet in a place where the color-line is drawn. Despite protests that this would embarrass the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and perhaps delay reunion between Northern and Southern branches, the resolution was passed by a close...
...excessive" rates; 3) transferred from the President to Congress his power to flex rates; 4) created the office of "consumers' counsel" with the Tariff Commission. The measure was sent to the Senate. If passed there, President Hoover is expected to veto it as a political trap set to embarrass...
...collegian is Joe E. Brown, whose strange face, rasping voice and alligator mouth enchant some cinemaddicts, embarrass others...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith wanted to wash behind Tammany's ears, make it presentable so that it would not embarrass him when he took it before a National Democratic Convention to secure for himself the presidential nomination. George Washington Olvany, a judge of General, Sessions Court, was the man Mr. Smith deemed of sufficiently good repute to lead the "New Tammany" into national potency and esteem. Having served five years as the Hall's leader, while Mr. Smith twice failed to become President, Judge Olvany resigned two years ago (TIME, March 25, 1929), succumbing to ill health and general...
...Neither statesman would confess to having a "plan" to champion. Neither could afford to embarrass the other by seeming to "win." Neither must "lose." It was all most difficult. President and Premier worked at what they called "exchanging views." Their views on Security, they found, were totally opposed (President Hoover being unwilling and unable to get a U. S. Congress to vote guarantees of French Security), but they did not ''disagree." They exchanged other views. After immense constructive effort President Hoover and Premier Laval told what they had done in a joint communiqué to the World Press...