Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance Franklin Roosevelt failed to understand Mr. Garner last week he could have found substantially the same advice expressed with equal cogency elsewhere. In her Washington Herald last week, Publisher Eleanor Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph M. Patterson of the proletarian and pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News, ran an open letter headlined WHAT YOU COULD SAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. In it she took the President's "dare" to tell him exactly what to say "that would banish fear." Cissie Patterson's remedies...
...performance chart that dates back to 1927. That was the year he lost the U. S. Open championship to one-eyed Tommy Armour by the slim margin of a 15-ft. putt. For the past five years he has maintained a scoring average that no U. S. pro could equal: he has never finished lower than fourth in annual scoring. Last year his form sheet* revealed that his 1937 average-in 82 rounds of competition-was 71.62 strokes per round (better than even fours, which is considered perfect golf), that his average finishing position was fourth, that...
...promote operating economies and speed consolidations, unification of terminal facilities, car and revenue pooling, etc.; 2) methods of correcting railroad financing abuses to be left to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which is now investigating them; 3) consideration of the desirability of placing all forms of transport under "equal and impartial regulation of a single agency of Government...
...Senate version provides for only an eight year term, and while the former would life the burden of senatorial confirmation, the latter retains this, the "good old way" of patronage appointments. Both bills would be an improvement over the situation existing up until July, 1936, but neither would equal the sweeping reform provided by the president's executive order of that month...
...equal to the Cole Porter high of Anything Goes, You Never Know may be slicked up enough by fall to run it a close second on Broadway. Best songs at present: From Alpha to Omega, a catalogue of compliments in the style of You're the Top; You Never Know, in the usual sultry, husky Holmanner. Best revue bit: Actress Velez skipping brightly about as Katharine Hepburn, Gloria Swanson, Simone Simon, Shirley Temple in turn...