Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recession had caused the President's attitude toward Business to undergo a marked change, there was every reason for Congress' attitude toward Business to change even more drastically and more sincerely. Back in Washington after nearly three months of putting their ears to the ground, its members felt that they knew even better than the President what the country wanted. Whether or not the President means to run for a third term, most Congressmen's hearts are set on re-election and a Roosevelt Recession would be the worst possible 1938 platform. Major administrative hold on both...
...East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions [colonies]. Accordingly it requires no great exercise of the imagination to conjecture that Hitler at his meeting with Viscount Halifax will test the ground for some such policy." To the Chamberlainian Daily Telegraph'?, sharp rebuke for printing this rumor, the Edenesque Yorkshire Post sharply retorted that its information was from a "reliable source...
...Pinkle did not eat much lunch that day, and no sooner left his house than he commenced picking more leaves off more bushes. He grew tired of chewing on them or swallowing parts, so he merely picked the leaves and threw them on the ground. The act was somehow soul-satisfying, an opiate to his empty dull life...
...thing they don't want." In 1910 the Hamilton made front-page national news when Roosevelt I declined to attend a banquet in his honor there because one of the other guests was Republican Boss William Lorimer, whom the U. S. Senate sensationally refused to seat on the ground that his election was fraudulent. In 1912, when Roosevelt I split the club even more bitterly by his Chicago Bull Moose Convention, President William Howard Taft laid the cornerstone of the Hamilton's $1,000,000 16-story clubhouse in the shadow of the First National Bank...
Harvard won this game 9-0. Stopped from gaining along the ground by a rock-ribbed Yale defense they took to the air. Charlie Buell hoisted a field goal in the first period, and another in the last. Captain Arne Horween contributed his bit by kicking a goal also in the fourth...