Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neither the State Department nor the President showed an inclination to deny the report. Having already finished his job as chairman of the Maritime Commission (TIME, Nov. 22), Joe Kennedy gave a farewell party to his staff at his Maryland mansion, and set off for a fortnight's holiday at Palm Beach in the manner of a man getting ready to tackle...
Dunster House will bid cheery farewell to departing students at its annual holiday dance tonight. Patrons and patronesses will include Mrs. Oliver Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Calkins, Dr. and Mrs. Joel A. Goldthwait, Mr. and Mrs. C. Nichols Green, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Gustin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Scofield, Dean and Mrs. Williard L. Sperry, Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Strong, and Mr. and Mrs. Delano Wight...
...were busy holding hearings on bills embodying the Administration's plans. Reception to the slash in roads appropriations was exactly the reverse. Congress felt somewhat aggrieved in the first place at being left to wrestle with the nation's business while the President went off on a holiday. A request to cut in half an appropriation for such a valuable vote-getting purpose as highway construction looked like advance preparation for blaming Congress, if it failed to approve the cut, in case the 1938-39 budget is not balanced. Nonetheless, by week's end, it was rumored...
Meantime, in Cleveland, as a Federal conciliator tried to end the busmen's holiday, nine of Greyhound Corp.'s affiliated companies filed one of the most remarkable suits in the history of U. S. labor. They asked $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President Alexander Fell Whitney and 19 other Brothers on the ground that the strike was called, not to improve wages and working conditions of bus drivers, but in behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed...
...made a pair of copper wings and attempted to fly; he also invented a cradle which rocked itself. To escape schooling and go a sketching, Tom himself proved resourceful. Once he successfully forged his father's signature to a note which asked the schoolmaster to "Give Tom a holiday." When his father discovered the fraud, he shook his head and prophesied: "Tom will one day be hanged." But when he saw how he had spent the stolen time, he changed his mind: "Tom will be a genius...