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...Gaspé Basin, Quebec...
...bones. But if you break a nation's nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again." In the late 19th century and early 20th, when the bone of Gaelic nationality was painfully being set, Ireland found voice to curse, plead, moan, gasp, roar and sing out a literature as great and sudden as any of modern times...
...letter, written to Barkley as acting majority leader immediately after the death of Majority Leader Joe Robinson, was Roosevelt's last-gasp effort to revive his Supreme Court packing bill in Congress. By addressing "Dear Alben," Roosevelt indicated his preference for Barkley over a powerful rival for the leadership, Mississippi's Pat Harrison. Barkley squeaked into the job by a vote...
...Taft Gasp. On his own, Brown then decided to change the strategy...
...Walkout. A gasp of surprise ran through the committee room. Taftman Sommers was walking out on his own organization's delegation. Later, Sommers said that Tucker had been doublecrossing him by gunning for his job as committeeman, and had not let him have as many Taft delegates as he thought he should have. Ikeman Tuttle called Sommers' action: "The worst doublecross that I have ever experienced...