Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arkansas law says that a Senate vacancy shall be filled by special election within 120 days. Last week, 96 days after the late great Joseph Taylor Robinson died in the heat of the Senate battle over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, Arkansas voters went to the polls to pick his successor...
...whose power his poetry was attacking, that was no more than the gracefully graceless way of the times he lived in. If he ran from the battles he fomented, that was because he was a poet, not a man of action. And if his poetry "glows at no great heat," seems largely facile and sentimental now, it had a quality, incommunicable to present ears, which made the Irish take it passionately to their hearts, and so furthered the cause of Nationalism that was his one enduring conviction. For this. Strong concludes, Tom Moore deserves "his modest but permanent cottage...
...Madrid front last week there was little fighting beyond the customary Rightist shelling of the centre of the city. But there was no loafing on either side. New dugouts were going up, fitted with heat and electric light, drainage ditches were being dug on trench lines and supplies of food and clothing were being rushed into the city. To the east hundreds of workmen were driving spikes and laying rails for two new sections of track to bring Madrid into direct rail connection with Valencia again, for winter was coming on, and in the high altitude of the Spanish plateau...
...price-fixing. Presently a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, chosen because Wisconsin is the most centrally located of the ten States in question, because all but two of the indicted companies do business there. A year ago having examined some 18 tons of documents and endured sweltering heat for the longest period any Federal grand jury has ever sat in a Department of Justice case, the jury charged the defendants with price-fixing by: 1) operating two buying pools to acquire gasoline from independent refiners at artificial prices; 2) selling gasoline to jobbers under long-term contracts...
...thrust deep in the traditions of centuries. His is not the frigid, classical view of the pedant, however, for he knows that poetry changes with the decades. But poetry to him is sacred, and in an age of frantic, formless compositions whose only worth lies in the white heat at which they are forged, Mr. Hillyer's poetry strikes a sure note. A sincere consideration of "A Letter to Robert Frest and Others" proves that Mr. Hillyer's poetry will stand the test of time...