Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Carolina no one can vote in general elections without a poll tax receipt, but any white man can enter a primary by putting his name down in a book (often kept in a grocery store). This year some 20,000 Negroes were allowed to put their names down, a piece of official colorblindness far more advantageous to New Dealer Johnston than to unreconstructed "Cotton Ed" Smith...
...January the blacks' Mr. White sat in the Senate visitors' gallery, where Southern members indignantly pointed at him during debate on the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Lobbyist White claimed to have bagged enough votes to get the bill passed, but a hastily organized Southern filibuster kept it from a vote. Having enjoyed Franklin Roosevelt's benevolent neutrality last time, Lobbyist White hopes for better than that if he can get the anti-lynching bill revived next session...
Careful to keep a protective New Deal coloration on his voting record, John O'Connor used his chief function-as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee-to bottle up New Deal legislation, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill, which Rules twice kept off the floor until the White House prodded the House into discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization...
...plants began shutting down, canteen sales in Detroit fell from top of the list to the bottom. Once President Leverone telephoned an officer in a large Chicago electrical supply house, startled him by remarking: "I see you laid off about 5,000 men last week." The news had been kept from newspapers, but not from the canteens...
...Lewis or the rheumy ones of Howard Spring, Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot of the Santa Cruz mountains...