Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. "A complete vindication," beamed Steelmaster Weir, as he boarded a boat for a Bermuda holiday. Businessmen in general did not try to hide their smiles of satisfaction. In the midst of the general chorus of groans from Washington, no Administration voice of protest was heard, but NRA's lawyers announced at once that they would carry the Weirton fight to the Supreme Court...
...limousine and police were assigned "to guard her from cranks." Leaning forward excitedly as the car swept up to her door, she waved to her 70-year-old husband. Speaking of her operation, Mother May said: "Afterward, when I get well, I hope to go away for a real holiday...
...attacking the tanker Bacchus, breaking her portholes, throwing 60 barrels of wine and a loading crane into the harbor. Day before 200 miles to the west at Mostaganem, Algeria, 300 stoned the City Hall. From Paris last week Minister of the Interior Marcel Régnier, glad for a holiday junket away from France's internal problems, set out for Algeria "to investigate the situation...
Died. Arthur Somers Roche, 51, author of popular fiction (Uneasy Street, Find the Woman, The Great Abduction, etc., etc.); of heart disease; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In 1921 Arkansas' Governor Thomas C. McRae declared a holiday on the publication day of The Day of Faith, a book describing what would happen if everyone simultaneously agreed: "My neighbor is perfect...
Reconvened after the holiday recess to hear Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald denounced by a Scottish Independent Laborite in language so strong that it was censored out of Hansard, the official minutes of debate. With a score of poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing...