Word: likes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like an echo from the past came the account by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. retired Assistant Attorney-General, of the prosecution of Prohibition cases. With patent pride she gave the year's figures: 56,786 new cases started, 56,455 finished; 47,100 convictions. 1,477 acquittals; 21,602 jail sentences aggregating 8,663 years; $4,200,052 in fines collected. Mrs. Willebrandt insisted that ''contrary to the general belief, considerable success was obtained" in her prosecution of New York night clubs (TIME. Aug. 13, 1928). Of 98 defendants, 80 pleaded guilty, 15 were convicted on trial...
...Like his 434 colleagues in the House, Speaker Longworth was thoroughly cognizant of the Senate's recent fumblings and gropings with the tariff. Even he had spoken critically of what parliamentary practice required him to refer to as "another body." With his two trusted Lieutenants (Floorleader John Quillan Tilson, Rules Chairman Bertrand H. Snell) he was prepared to shame the Senate with exhibition of legislative despatch...
...public's jibes and jeers at the Senate's summer saunter through the tariff were enough to account for the Speaker's state of mind. What perhaps amused him most, what certainly incensed the Senate most, was the frequent charge that, like Nero, the Senate had fiddled while U. S. business burned (TIME, Dec. 2). Like many another, the Speaker had observed the Neronic figure of Senate Leader Watson, helpless to extinguish the spreading blaze of Senate insurgency...
...newest Senate face-long, pointed, with fun-filled eyes-is that of Patrick Sullivan, born on St. Patrick's Day 64 years ago in County Cork, Ireland. Governor Emerson of Wyoming appointed him to the Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership...
...statesmanship. Well, all I say to that Senator who intends to oppose anything the Governor of Pennsylvania does is that he reminds me of an antimire* talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty if I let the threat of any Senator dictate the selection...