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Word: finally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor of the U. S. Senate turned into a theatre where a scene from the Merchant of Venice would be re-enacted with Uncle Sam playing the role of Shylock." Carter Glass stamped onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Refined Humor | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...automatic." Mr. Hoffman swore he would, if necessary, leave Congress to lead his men himself. "They can sit around here and talk evasions and other nonsense," stormed the berserk Republican, "but I stand for law and order." Much less of a threat to the public peace was a final outburst on the floor of the House. Cried Mr. Hoffman: "By the aid of his Secretary of Labor, who was born only God knows where but whose destination, if the predictions of many be true, is absolutely certain; with the assistance of his traitorous tool Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Berserk Republican | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...strikes him horizontally across the face, using his club as he would a baseball bat. Another crashes it down on top of his head, and still another is whipping him across the back. . . . In one such scene, directly in the foreground, a policeman gives the fallen man a final smash on the head before moving on to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frightful Film | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Tsar Kahane's appointment coincided auspiciously last week with the conclusion of Hollywood's most troublesome recent labor difficulties when, after six weeks of picketing and bickering, the strike of painters and scenic artists (TIME, June 14) approached settlement. Pending final wage adjustments, the strikers last week returned to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Producers' Tsar | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Hockey team wins series--Season closed brilliantly by defeating Yale in final game 4-2. Professor C. R. Sanger dies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn Back The Clock | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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