Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief in the existing national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking & Currency Committee arose to explain to his bewildered colleagues how H. R. 1491 gave dictatorial banking power to the President, authorized impounding of all gold, and provided for a new currency issue. Members...
...Lone Wolf Tribe (Wrigley's Chewing Gum). An Indian powwow, opening with lugubrious war-whoops which listening children mimic. Gifts to be obtained for chewing gum wrappers: a pin, a book of tribal secrets, Indian regalia...
Secretary Ickes is a short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
...metallurgy at M. I. T. With the gist Division he went overseas, a lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding Democratic position in the House in six short years. On the Appropriations Committee he made a detailed study of Governmental...
...Dodge, Jr. '33. Harvard will be represented in the two-mile relay by G. P. Rosen '33, John Wiggins '33, J. B. White '34, and E. F. Bowditch '35, while Arthur Foote II, '33 will run for the Crimson in the two-mile run. A lone Harvard entry, J. S. Hayes '33 will run in the mile. The other Harvard sprinters, J. C. Grady '33 and J. J. Hayes, Jr. '34, will compete in the hurdles...