Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen-and-a-half Senators gathered in the office of liberal, hell-roaring Isolationist Hiram Johnson of California, counseled there almost daily, swore to keep the U. S. out of that "entangling alliance." Last week, in the same room, around the same Hiram Johnson (but now conservative and weak-voiced) another dozen-and-a-half gathered, pledged themselves to U. S. isolation and to defense of the arms embargo...
While the Gallup and other polls continued to show a majority cross-section of the U. S. for repeal, Congressional mail ranged 10-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against. Even discounting half that mail as inspired by such professional rainmakers as Father Coughlin, there were enough sane, sincere letters in the downpour to give shivers to Congressmen, notoriously the most mail-pervious group...
There, in his study of politics, he marked well one priceless maxim: always ask for more than you can get, then compromise for half. Thus he could appreciate last week Franklin Roosevelt's stratagem in asking absolute repeal of the Neutrality law and a return to the vague vagaries of international law, in order that a compromise on cash-and-carry would seem to anti-repeal forces like a victory...
Last week, however, Mr. Rockefeller declared he would waive the refund (except half the $6,705 litigation cost) and forget any further action, if the town would base his 1940 assessment on the readjusted one for 1934, and if he could be assured that henceforth he would not be discriminated against...
...Giacobini-Zinner comet travels in an orbit extending as far as Jupiter, requires six and one-half years to get around...