Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold our noses...
...Promptly at the opening of every session, with patience comparable to Senator Norris' in getting the Lame Duck Amendment, Representative Boylan would introduce a resolution to build a gigantic memorial to Statesman Jefferson that could hold its own with the Lincoln Memorial at the west end of the Mall. Promptly every session it was tabled, until the 73rd Congress found itself with buckets of New Deal money to spend. Quickly Representative Boylan's Jefferson Memorial bill was passed, an expenditure of $3,000,000 authorized (but not appropriated) and a commission set up to draw plans, with Congressman...
Does the NLRA abridge AP's Constitutional guarantee of freedom? "We hold that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position...
...Hopi Indian snake dance. While portly Col. Tim McCoy explains that the idea is to placate the snakes because in them rest spirits who can return to the rain gods and intercede for a good corn crop, eight painted, breech-clouted Hopis trail around in a circle holding one or two snakes apiece, while a man in the centre waves a bunch of feathers to divert the serpents' attention. As a public precaution, the snakes' fangs have been removed or are kept folded back by little buckskin muzzles. Even so, as the Hopis let the rattlers coil about...
...producers). Night of this comedy's Washington try-out opening, the theatre manager received the following telegram from a Hollywood lawyer named Henry C. Huntington: "From report it appears Hitch Your Wagon burlesques my client Barrymore as well as Elaine Barrie. I hereby warn you that I will hold you strictly responsible, if this play is produced, on behalf of my client...