Word: listing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them down so ignominiously, it was decided there was absolutely no respect to be commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor...
...graduate of Salem High School, the recipient has a Dean's List academic rating, plays on the Varsity football team, and is a member of the Student Council and the Kirkland House Committee of which he is also chairman. He concentrates in economics...
...microphone: "Pick up a nut at the Literary Digest office. He keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show its face again in the Congressional elections of 1938 or the Presidential campaign four years from now. That it was so thoroughly discredited this year...
...this conjecture about our 'not reaching certain strata' simply will not hold water. . . . The basis of the 1936 mailing-list was the 1932 mailing-list, and since the overwhelming majority of those who responded to our Poll in 1932 voted for Mr. Roosevelt, it seems altogether reasonable to assume that the majority of our ballots this year went to people who had voted for Roosevelt in 1932. . . . So what? So we were wrong, although we did everything we knew to assure ourselves of being right...
...labor organizations whose internecine struggles helped contribute to Labor's failure in Detroit, claims a membership of some 60,000, which is less than one-seventh of all auto, body and parts workers, and is probably an exaggeration at that. But automobiles are on John L. Lewis' list of prospects for industrial organization...