Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content to guess, Republican Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the "sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...
...half years, find the problem of diversion difficult and pressing, Hornsby was fond of betting on horse races. Last week, sportswriters who knew that a special clause in Hornsby's $20,000-a-year contract bound him not to let his betting interfere with his baseball, soon guessed that a difference of opinion about what "interference" meant had caused the ousting. Their guess was substantiated by Rogers Hornsby himself. His version of the ousting: When called to President Barnes's office and asked if he still bet on horses, "I looked him straight in the eyes and said...
...long time Governor Lehman had contemplated speaking his mind about the Court. What prompted him to do so last week was anyone's guess. Senator Wagner was not publicly committed on the Court, but Administration forces counted on the aid of his vote. As good a guess as any was that Senator Wagner, wishing to be relieved of his obligation to the Administration, had quietly prompted the letter to provide himself with an excuse for voting against the bill. An equally good guess was that Herbert Lehman, whose brother Irving sits on New York's highest bench...
...application cards to work with him in his cap. While mopping his brow, the cards fluttered down 40 ft. from his crane to the floor. One he managed to retrieve but the other was picked up by a fellow worker. Five days later the foreman fired him, saying: "I guess you don't want to work here...
...Close guess at China's gold...