Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of Edward R. Burke, who three years ago was elected to the Senate with the support of Nebraska's Democratic boss, Arthur Mullen. Slow-moving, stocky, a lawyer out of Harvard Law School, he first won national attention during the campaign of 1934. President Roosevelt at Green Bay quoted one of Burke's rare purple passages ("The New Deal is an old deal as old as the earliest aspirations of humanity for liberty and justice and the good life. . . . It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new and the Constitution...
Washington was seething with sightseers left over from the Easter holidays. At the same time that 53,000 egg-rolling youngsters were trampling down the fine green turf of the White House lawn, 4,000 of their elders were exploring the marble corridors of the new Supreme Courthouse. Little did many of them know beforehand of the momentous things that might happen during their visit. Little did they know when something did happen, for the courtroom was too small to admit more than a fraction of their number. But the connoisseurs knew and were present. Stanley Reed, Robert H. Jackson...
...plane base. There Pan American's six-man shore-crew has set up a cottage under the three palms. In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction finder and a 35-man airport staff which laid out a runway channel with green and red buoys. Last week, eight hours after leaving Honolulu, having flown some 500 ft. over the sea at 140 m.p.h., the Pan American Clipper hit Kingman Reef right on the nose, lit on the light green waters of the lagoon, which, reported Capt. Musick, "stood out in sharp contrast...
Other bridal gowns, some bright green and red, and others which swathe the lady completely from head to foot, leaving only her toes visible, are also shown in the display, which is from early nineteenth century English and French costume books...
Opponents did their best to make it hot for the law professors. Leon Green was forced to admit that he had discussed his arguments beforehand with lawyers in the Attorney General's office, that friends had advanced his name for nomination as a judge of the circuit court. Professor Corwin blushingly confessed under pressure that he had said only last year that there were serious objections to "packing" the Court. Justin Miller received his comeuppance while he was propounding a theory that the age of Justices of the Supreme Court was proportional to the number of laws they found...