Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, in two instances where President Roosevelt would have been glad to see economies effected, the real obstacles to Economy were glaringly highlighted. Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, a recent convert to Economy, managed to persuade the Senate, which was supposed to be paring down the $83,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill, to authorize and make the initial appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been...
That curious observation obviously demanded explanation, and indignant Columnists Pearson & Allen were glad to give it. As written and dispatched by United Feature Syndicate (Scripps-Howard) to its 300 subscriber newspapers, including two Hearstpapers, the day's column had contained in addition to the above quotation a startling piece of news. Under Hearst pressure, United Feature had ordered this news killed...
Present to oppose the bill was R. V. Fletcher, counsel for the Association of American Railroads. He argued that there was no necessity to fix one more onerous law on railroads, that they were glad to do of their own free will what the bill proposed. The subcommittee's Chairman Alfred L. Bulwinkle of North Carolina and his colleagues were inclined to agree with him. Then Dr. Claus and Rex walked in. Eloquently the young engineer told of the months of training which he and Rex had undergone together at the famed Seeing Eye institute in Morristown...
Last week a spectacled German bachelor, visiting England on a passport bearing the name "Ian Anderson," received word that he had been appointed a professor at Harvard University. "Ian Anderson," whose friends know him as Germany's onetime (1930-32) Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, was as glad as any exiled German scholar to get work...
...circular announcing the poll states that the bureau "will be glad to supply those in charge of the poll with a broadside containing photographs of the twelve competitors." Madeline Carroll and Marlene Dietrich are considered wily wagers to hit the wire first by those in the know...