Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Hamilton, boomed the towering, buck-toothed Representative from New York, was a fine fellow, but as a representative of the "old. reactionary elements" he must be dropped. "If word goes out today that the Republican Party has learned no lesson," warned he, "it may be too late and our Party perishes before we can act to liberalize it in Congress. . . . Hamilton's fight on the Social Security Act drove millions out of the Party in the big industrial cities...
...officially from Nanking last week and see what would happen, especially what Japan would do. Japan had done so little up to this week, and Nanking had received so many telegrams of passionate loyalty to the Government from so many outlying Chinese military satraps that the kidnapping was going fine, even if somebody should get killed...
Artist Jorgensen reached California from his native Oslo in 1870, aged 10. He was the first enrolled pupil of the California School of Fine Arts. In 1883, when he had served as the school's assistant director for two years, he married a pupil, Angela Ghirardelli, daughter of famed Chocolate Manufacturer Domingo Ghirardelli, producer of what is still California's best-selling cocoa, and never had to work for a living again. After studying painting in Italy for two years, the Jorgensens moved to Yosemite Valley, built and furnished a home and studio entirely with their own hands...
...proprietors of KVOS, a 100-watt "coffeepot"* radio station in Bellingham, Wash., 70 miles from Seattle, had a fine idea. Why not start a "Newspaper of the Air" with three or more daily editions to keep KVOS fans up to the minute on world affairs? For advertising, there was the business of Bellingham merchants who would pay for interspersed announcements. For an editor, there was L. H. Darwin, who had once published a Bellingham paper. For news, there were the columns of the Bellingham Herald and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer, all members of the far-flung Associated Press...
...Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists Sid Kuller and Ray Golden expect Comedian Whitehead to put across. Inviting a "fine feathered frenzy" to "cut himself a piece of throat and make himself at home," Whitehead observes that "only God can make a trio...