Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maryland's lean, long-armed, young Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, volunteered the opinion that the testimony showed nothing to reflect on Judge Wilson, but "it may reflect on some other people." At that Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes, superior and champion of Governor Pearson, blew up. At a press conference he stormed that "the hearing ought to bring forth just a few facts," raged that Judge Wilson was "bringing the administration of American justice into disrepute in the Islands'' and ought to be removed for "judicial misconduct." Then...
Five thousand strong, a hopeful delegation of Croat peasants meanwhile cheered sexagenarian Croat Leader Vecheslav Wilder who cried: "We have endured seven lean years, given us by the Belgrade Dictatorship, but seven fat years lie ahead!" Seasoned old Croat rebels, such as famed Svetozar Pribitchevitch who now lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel...
Improving health has put pink into the thin, sallow cheeks of Squire Robert Worth Bingham, the Kentucky publisher (Louisville Courier-Journal) who, when first appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed the frailest of frail reeds on whom President Roosevelt had elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely...
...sharp, lean, hustling promoter is J. Edward Jones, 41, world's largest dealer in oil royalties. He worked his way through the University of Kansas as a soda jerker, now lives swankily in Scarsdale, N. Y. The intervening years were largely spent in initiating the public into the mysteries of oil royalties. When a landowner leases mineral rights, he retains the right to the royalties-generally one barrel out of every eight. Because he and his clients receive one-eighth of production irrespective of the price of oil, Mr. Jones does not look kindly upon any effort to limit...
...roads-all Western-dug into their lean purses for $450,000 to buy space in 388 newspapers, four national magazines. Typical layouts...