Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the bill should be rewritten in conference. Meanwhile, Speaker Bankhead deferred naming the House conferees until this week. Thus it was assured that the compromise reached in conference should be dumped back into the House and Senate just before adjournment, when Congressmen will be too tired to fight hard or argue long...
...soon all Washington learned just how hard Harry Hopkins had tried to "avoid" his predicament...
...Significance. Depending on their sympathies, observers regarded the poll-priming furor as either: 1) the beginning of a hard-boiled Party purge which by 1940 might result in a serious Democratic schism; or 2) the pained but pointless howling of anti-New Dealers who, if driven into the wilderness, would have no other place...
...Dewey has convicted all but one of his racket indictees. Should he jail elusive Jimmy Hines, it may be hard to keep New York Republicans from drafting Dewey for Governor this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well...
Governor Gordon Browning of Tennessee is not popular in Memphis because, after accepting the election support of Boss Ed Crump, he turned his back on that Democratic mastermind. One friend Governor Browning has in Memphis is Lawyer Ben W. Kohn, nowadays working hard for Mr. Browning's renomination in the August primary...