Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Landis, who has now been on leave from the Law School for three years, is reported to be considering strongly resigning his job as one of the key men of the New Deal to return to his teaching post. Landis has not split with Roosevelt and is known to be one of the staunchest supporters of the present administration, but desires a return to private life...
...down on expenditures and appearing to be genuinely interested in the renascence of what Republican historians refer to as a "balanced budget", has been drilled into the consciousness of the Congress for some time. Less spending, less appropriations, less deficits, less "extraordinary" expenditures;--all these have now become the key note of congressional legislation. The President, far from being bitterly disappointed over the treatment afforded his brain-children, has realized for some time that there is a strong sentiment in the direction of economy, and is probably delighted that this pre-election liability is off his mind...
...Alan Dearden (Franchot Tone) to his onetime mistress. At her rendezvous with the blackmailer Lady Dearden encounters two tourists. When, with Sir Alan Dearden as prosecutor, one of the tourists goes on trial for pushing the other one off a cliff, this chance meeting makes Lady Dearden a key witness; but because her testimony would reveal her deal with the blackmailer, she postpones giving it. When she finally talks in court, it not only frees the prisoner at the bar but puts her husband in his place. When his onetime mistress has been murdered, circumstantial evidence, much like that...
...Sociology at Minnesota, who will teach this summer at the Summer School, is along with Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, considered as an outstanding member of this field in the country. Sorokin was connected for many years with the department at Minnesota before coming here, and was a key man in its development to its present position of eminence...
...Give the key of his flat...