Word: happen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less a witness than Physician Francis E. Townsend himself. Far more unruly, however, were Congressmen anxious to outdo one another in doing for the old folks. Massachusetts' broadbeamed Republican Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when Congress receives the committee's report. Trying to shout down a group of Democrats, Republican Treadway and his party members made so much noise that Chairman Doughton almost broke his gavel pleading: "Order! Gentlemen, Gentlemen, we will have order...
...happen to be present when the reporter took Dr. Goulden's picture. Apparently he was on deck and had the inhalation apparatus strapped on over his face and, as there was no oxygen connected up to the apparatus, he probably unconsciously put the pipe in his mouth. It is one of those thoughtless little incidents that can happen when one is not perfectly conversant with oxygen and the impossibility of having fire of any type in its neighborhood...
...captain in command. There they begin group life in uniform. But they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments that an Army private would respect. CCC scamps may be confined to camp for a few days if a reprimand doesn't work. Worst that can happen is dishonorable discharge, meaning principally that an offender loses his accrued cash allowances. In the main, discipline is a matter of persuasion and good administrative sense on a C. O.'s part-good training for officers used to rule the easy way by command alone. Aside from a wise...
...sense-making economy out of its 28-year-old "Revolution," because it proclaims itself a proletarian State, harbors Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and at the same time barters oil expropriated from the democracies with Germany and Italy, thoughtful observers have picked it as a place where anything might happen. Last week something unique on the American continent...
...another time, a member of the audience rose with the question, "Mr. Hicks, what do you suppose would happen if a modern Patrick Henry arose to say in Germany or in Russia, 'Give me liberty or give me death.' Which would he got?" Hicks was not hesitant in his reply. "He'd got it in the neck!" was his answer. "What do you think...