Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lead his party in the Senate: a successful election; a majority (on paper) of 16 Republican votes in the Senate; a Democratic opposition lacking a definite program; a new President, potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow Republicans last week, made a poor fist of steering the Senate. Perhaps Leader Watson's troublesome week was partly due to the heat. In the Senate the temperature rose close to 100° F. In the House it was a comfortable 70° F. The House has a modern cooling...
...Young could not so easily dissociate himself from the Hero's role. Men-in-the-street might ignore him but in Washington he was being closely eyed by many a potent fellow Democrat as a possible presidential nominee three years hence. Last fortnight the Democracy dined at the capital in the name of harmony. The orators mentioned no names as 1932 candidates but among the diners one name was persistently whispered back and forth-Owen D. Young. He had, all admitted, done a great thing at Paris-a thing which could surely be dramatized for use in party politics...
...late great Railroader E. H. Harriman. She declared $1,500 of Paris finery. The inspectors were not satisfied, seized $100,000 worth of jewelry and eleven pieces of baggage. When the France was two days at sea, Mrs. Rumsey had given a jeweled purse to her friend and fellow passenger, Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan Opera soprano. Miss Bori is a Spanish citizen. Her personal belongings were not dutiable. Nevertheless, the inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though...
Last week Sir Esme made the British Embassy dry. He did it voluntarily, without pressure from the State Department, by refusing to sign any more requisitions for liquor importations. The Drys hailed him as a "great good fellow." South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease, prime agitator for Dry embassies in Washington, took off his hat and bowed to him. He was saluted by Henry Ford for his "fine old English spirit...
...many years since "Bolshevik" was a popular synonym for a low, ruffianly fellow and "ruble" was a popular synonym for the ultimate in worthless money. But though the U. S. Department of State remains unaware of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, U. S. industry is now inclined to believe that Russians habitually pay their bills and that a ruble in the hand is as good as 51½¢ in the bank. Thus last week Amtorg, Russian trading corporation at No. 261 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, announced the following contracts entered into by U. S. corporations with Soviet...