Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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322-to-98. So saying, Franklin Roosevelt swung around to the desk above him where Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns had sat in sphinxlike pomp and handed Speaker Byrns the vetoed Bonus Bill and the original of his speech. While applause rang through the House Speaker Byrns wrung the...
No single item of Parade's bill lacks a heavy-handed social implication, but some interest more than others. Examples:
Housepainter John Kane took 67 years to get around to sending a real painting to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Show in 1927. Today he is rated "one of the few great American painters of this age." Horny-handed, one-legged Irishman Kane never had an art lesson in his...
Greatest name in Canadian racing, as in Canadian whiskey distilling, is Seagram. Horses owned by the late Joseph Seagram and his son Edward Frowde Seagram, whose stables are not far from his mash vats at Waterloo, Ontario, had won the King's Plate 19 times before. Last week, paunchy...
"Tactics of Tyranny" Up the first day of the Assembly jumped a Philadelphia commissioner to challenge the seating of three Machenite commissioners, all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days...