Word: framer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never disparaged was Gouverneur Morris' earlier record. He was spokesman at 26 for Washington at the Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...
...public. Yet the most important fact about Painter Max Kuehne is that he has paid his bills, kept off relief, put a son through college and furnished a comfortable Manhattan apartment because a dozen famed collectors and nearly as many museums consider him the best picture framer...
...only brought the leaders of Congress into the Lincoln Study but considerable Congressional atmosphere. First to hop to his feet with an objection during the recitation of the domestic fiscal program was small Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury and a framer of the Federal Reserve Act. In the matter of broadening the basis of discountable paper through the Federal Reserve to thaw frozen assets which are causing distress, particularly in Western banks, Senator Glass reminded one & all that such a plan was now under consideration by the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, warned against...
Another reason why the buyer was not specified in the Volstead Act was Dry fear that such a provision would endanger the bill's passage. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, framer of the 18th Amendment, was among those who reasoned thus. The Supreme Court's decision and a decade of Prohibition have now changed Senator Sheppard's attitude: last week he proposed a bill to make purchases criminal...
...predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the young Cardinal his blessing, then retired to his stately villa (a present from Pope Pius) where he can sit in the sun, busy himself for the rest of his life with canonical law. By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate...