Word: glads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several professional politicians were politely cynical over Mr. Roosevelt's moralizing. Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton remembered occasions upon which Mr. Roosevelt had been glad to see parties scrambled: in Minnesota two years ago when the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator were withdrawn by Jim Farley to let the Farmer-Labor candidates beat the Republicans; in Nebraska two years ago when Mr. Roosevelt, a Democrat, urged the re-election of Senator Norris, an Independent Republican, over a Democrat; in. Michigan, when Republican aid was sought in the primary to nominate Frank Murphy for Governor...
...himself. After a parley with three of Mr. Dubinsky's vice presidents who set out to extend another feeler to Mr. Lewis in Washington, Mr. Green announced that the next peace move would have to come from C.I.O., that in the meantime A.F. of L. would be glad to take disillusioned C.I.O. unions back into the fold, whole or piecemeal...
...traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., returned to his home in Orange, Conn. one day last week to find that his colleagues on the Grange Town Committee had delegated him to attend the Republican State Convention. Said John Coolidge: "I'll be glad to do whatever I can-locally-to keep the Republican party alive...
...such widely separated nations the good-willers necessarily had to pass through other countries, including England and the U. S. To 25 Manchukuoan glad-handers, British and U. S. consular authorities last week had readily granted visas. But neither Britain nor the U. S. would grant the honorable Mr. Amakasu even a transit visa. To Britain a murderer is still an "undesirable alien." to the U. S. a murderer is still guilty of "moral turpitude," to both a murderer is a murderer...
Wrote tousled Manhattan Columnist Heywood Broun: "The United States Chamber of Commerce might well profit by a little lecture from Miss Carole Lombard." Miss Lombard's little lecture: "I gave the Federal Government 65% of my wages last year, and I was glad to do it, too. . . . Income tax money all goes into improvement and protection of the country. . . . I really think I got my money's worth...