Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he undertook to lead a Congress which Franklin Roosevelt left to stew in its own juice, John Garner has taken to rambling out of his room in the Senate office building to call on Senators young & old, to having likely new House men brought in to his "school of education" by mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner...
Last week urbane Apostle Aranha, an ex-cowboy who still carries lead in his shoulder from the 1930 Presidential campaign, completed a profitable month's stay in the U. S. Under the auspices of his friend Cordell Hull he had not only talked business but done business with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, and Export-Import Bank President Pierson. Before cameramen these gentlemen cordially sealed the deal which they had made in a month's negotiations. Its terms...
Nations, even continents, have moods. For weeks Europe's has been blue. Last week, following the lead of Mr. Chamberlain's wide smile, democratic Europe displayed a happier-than-usual face...
Leon Henderson, a former NRA official, made a hurt defense of it. SECommissioner Jerome Frank explored "the question whether competition does not also at times lead to great economic and social waste," then suggested: "that the category of those industries which today we call public utilities, the category of industries where monopoly may be more desirable than competition, is not necessarily a closed...
Taking the lead in the first period, the Varsity polo team triumphed, 16-14 over a strong Princeton trio in a hard-fought match at the Tigers' Riding Hall Saturday...