Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having been soundly rebuked by the Senate which turned down (72 to 9) his nomination of a Virginia judge over the heads of Virginia's Senators Byrd & Glass, the President gave the Senate his version of Article II of the Constitution. Substance: the Senate's power of "advice & consent" in Presidential nominations was meant to be a consultative function of the Senate as a whole, usurped the President's appointive power if it was invoked by one or two Senate soreheads. Soreheads Byrd & Glass, along with other Constitutionalists, still maintained that the appointive power was dual...
Senatorial courtesy is the custom by which Presidential appointees "personally offensive or obnoxious" to Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred...
Manufacturing Caterpillar Tractor 10,168,689 3,235,709 Du Pont 88,031,943 50,190,827 Owens-Illinois Glass 9,351,627 5,382,000 Republic Steel 9,044,147 d7,997,825 U. S. Steel 94,944,358 d7,755,914 Westinghouse Elec...
...except for a rendition of Wagner's "Tannhauser," it is very poor; in its humorous ones, excellent. "There's That Woman Again," with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce, pretends to be a detective story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side, and especially on the marital quarrels between the two leads. By so doing, he succeeded in making a successful whole; but the makers of "Going Places" were not equally clever. This film, burdened from the start...
...writer in his spare time (From Nudity to Raiment), Hiler was also a great cafe sitter with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. He knew the Left Bank like the bottom of his glass. In 1934, when the dollar fell so low that a whiskey neat cost 72? in Paris, Hiler announced, "The position is untenable," and started home...