Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina's flag-strung...
Prince Paul, the Regent of Yugoslavia, virtually hid himself in Slovenia last week until Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an Orthodox, and Minister of Interior Father Anton Koroshetz, a Roman Catholic priest, should have succeeded or failed to jam the Concordat through the Skupshtina (Lower House). Sick deputies were brought in-even on stretchers-to vote and the Cabinet finally...
...they wanted, even let them photograph his hands to show how he held a golf club in his celebrated fingers. Asked how he had succeeded in Hollywood he answered: "I let the other guy's girl alone." Still amiable, he discussed the holdup: "I got into a jam when I was a wild young kid. . . . I'm glad it's over. I had intended going East and clearing this thing up anyway...
With this backhanded admission, the key log was removed from the jam that had kept Congress tied up since February. Several weeks ago, Congressional leaders recognized that it would be impossible to pass the bill for six new Supreme Court Justices, but the President refused to believe them. They gave out hints of compromise; Franklin Roosevelt refused to bat an eye. They deliberately delayed action on the bill hoping he would see his mistake. Finally, giving up hope of changing him, they began to plan on letting the Court bill die without action. When this was reported in the press...
Last week as the temperature rose steadily, the Tanana ice-jam began moving, drawing the wire taut. At 8:04 p. m. May 12 the trigger was tripped, the clock stopped, making Mervin E. Anderson, 31-year-old Fairbanks bus driver, whose guess of 8:02 p. m. was nearest correct, some $75,000 richer. Day before Guesser Anderson split with another guesser the $3,500 first prize in another similar pool based on the movement of ice in the Chena River at Fairbanks...