Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steam launch has been put in order and is now used daily by the committee while coaching the crew...
...Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank, the man who is now engaged in preparing a new charter for the Republican Party. Governor La Follette's purpose was to launch a national political organization with the definite political objective of electing a bloc of Congressmen this fall, with the probable objective of electing himself President in 1940. His means were: 1) a two-hour speech broadcast all over the U. S., and 2) a manifesto of the new National Progressive...
...individualistic No. 1 Businessman and its highly individualistic President has often been rumored before. Now that it was definitely scheduled it served to symbolize as dramatically as possible the conciliatory feelings toward U. S. Business which the President expressed in his Fireside Chat last fortnight. It also served to launch the U. S. press on a guessing game. Best guess as to why Gracie Hall Roosevelt-a onetime Comptroller of Detroit, who now spends most of his time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary...
...night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point where Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary meet. There they dumped them on a stone breakwater in the middle of the swollen stream. All night they crouched on cold, slippery stones barely emerging from the water...
...Congressional approval to be effective-thereby throwing the balance of power to Congress since a simple majority would be sufficient to thwart any executive proposal. Scurrying to round up votes against the amendment. Floor Leader Barkley found so few that it seemed advisable to have Louisiana's Ellender launch a miniature filibuster to prevent a roll call. Meanwhile, Floor Leader Barkley was so busy bargaining on the floor that Mr. Borah was moved to another and more pertinently acid comment on the proceedings. Said he: "Certain things are being promised on and off the floor that amount to reorganization...