Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only new meat in this Michelson feast of criticism was Governor Earle's reference to Nominee Landon's uncle as "the chief lobbyist of the Pennsylvania steel masters." A brother of Governor Landon's late mother, William T. Mossman has been public relations chief for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. for the past 25 years. Last week Governor Earle was not the only partisan who attempted to embarrass Governor Landon by lugging his lobbyist uncle irrelevantly into the campaign. Philip Murray, head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and right-hand man of John L. Lewis...
...another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate into insanity...
...Lord permit us, so long as life lasts, to pass it in unceasing, fruitful work. . . ." Scanning plans for improvements to St. Peter's Square, he remarked: "When a man is 80 years old, he cannot make too far-distant dates." Last fortnight, on the eve of the feast of St. Peter, Pius XI, in accordance with papal custom, descended to the cool tomb of his predecessor, in a grotto beneath St. Peter's. There he prayed, stood silent where five years ago he said: "Some day I, too, shall find sweet repose in this place...
Four pleas and plans laid before four Interstate Commerce Commissioners last week by truckmen and railroaders sounded as if the U. S. railroad and trucking industries were either getting ready for a great consolidation feast or a grim competitive fight...
...evidence to what was practically an empty chamber. . . . Quit talking now, boys, and behave. ... An impeachment in this case will be notice to the country that the time has come when a corporation seeking refuge in Federal Court is not a signal to crooked lawyers to flock in and feast on the carcass...