Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will do this, Mr. President, explicitly, generously, candidly; make no effort to keep Congress in session longer than is absolutely necessary, and reduce your blacklist to real, intentional enemies of the common welfare, you will be astounded to witness the curative effect of this single thing...
...speak his final piece on the matter last week, the House had just heard Majority Leader Rayburn cry: "Is it possible that we want to send the message to the country tonight, even though we have the President in the White House for two years and eight months longer, that this is a leaderless land? The President of the United States is the voice of America, if. America has any voice at all. He is the leader in America, if America has any leader at all." It was 5:45 in the afternoon and spectators were peering down from...
...addition the organizations will bring to Harvard the best foreign films and those of another generation of American movie-makers which are no longer shown in the commercial theatre. A glimpse into the future might show a carefully and intelligently movie-cultured audience of students here imbibing its American Civilization from celluloid documents preserved in the film library founded by the Guild...
...first metallic booming fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold...
...ledger. When the market crash last fall halted refinancing plans, the company took refuge in a 77 B reorganization to await reviving good times. When the market crashed again last week, Pierce's 444 creditors were agreed that there was no use waiting any longer...