Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defeated, Carter Glass sat down. Another who had already sat down defeated was Utah's King, who had embodied his hope of economy in a proposal for an automatic cut of 10% in all appropriations made by this session of Congress. The rest of the Senate's economy bloc had either yielded too or, succumbing to political schizophrenia, recast themselves as members of the Senate's farm bloc. When the bill came to a vote, only 14 Senators mustered courage to vote No. Even such Democratic economizers as Adams, Byrd, Byrnes, such Republican economizers as Taft...
...them to get rid of half of their coal piles and any longer stoppage would only cost them money which they could ill afford to lose. But some operators still held out. Many a potent mine owner, ready to sign at union terms, accused the holdouts of stalling in hope of provoking an industrial war in which U. M. W. might be licked...
...natty, luggage-style, portable radio that runs on batteries, needs no wall plug or aerial outlet, can be toted squawking along in a car, a canoe, on a bicycle. With 200,000 of these already sold since their introduction last autumn by Philco, 28 manufacturers who now make them hope to sell some 500,000 more this season at prices ranging from...
Athletic Association officials hope that his arrest will put an end to the epidemic of robberies that has lately plagued the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Crimson's stock went down another couple of points when Charley Smith, white hope in the 100-yard dash, pulled up lame in his trial heat and was scratched in the final...