Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement was official promulgation of the Census Bureau's figures for Congressional reapportionment based on the 1930 population count (total: 122,775,046). The Constitution provides that the House shall be altered to fit the population every ten years. Rural members of Congress, eyeing jealously the people's concentration in big cities, blocked the 1920 reapportionment and only authorized the 1930 change after a bitter struggle last year (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928 et seq.). It was voted to change the number of people whom one Congressman shall represent, not the number of Representatives (435) in Congress...
Apologizing for his refusal, up to last week, to be interviewed by any white foreign Correspondent, Josef Stalin genially remarked: "Interviews don't fit very well into my personal five-year plan." To make amends, he motioned Correspondent Lyons hospitably to a typewriter, and while the interview was being typed, plied him with sandwiches...
...team last week eyed with disgust Rameses IV, a large untidy ram. Three weeks ago Mascot Rameses III, who had brought victory to the team for two seasons, was worried to death by mongrel dogs. Immediately a delegation was sent to a New Jersey slaughter house to pick a fit successor, for Fordham's game with St. Mary's College. The delegation surveyed all rams with care, picked as Rameses IV one whose tough, untidy appearance made him particularly lucky looking. Fortnight ago at the St. Mary's-Fordham game, Rameses IV stood on the side lines...
Biographer Laver's picture is lively, sympathetic, allots Painter Whistler a place in the sun which would not have satisfied his subject, but which seems to fit his subject's shadow...
...such that sales at present levels may not be to the advantage of those who can hold their securities for better times." The announced solution to this was that each stockholder may claim his proportion of the holdings, or else direct it sold or held as he sees fit. Philadelphia. Another failure which was direct aftermath of the September decline was that of C. Clothier Jones & Co., New York and Philadelphia brokerage house whose socialite partners include Richard Norris Williams II, onetime U. S. tennis champion. Each partner has been charged with fraud, four are out on bail. The firm...