Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ribbing was not long in coming. Massachusetts' sour-faced Treadway, ranking Republican on the committee, recalled that Mr. Morgenthau's counsel, the late Herman Oliphant, had argued "at very great length and very emphatically" for the Undistributed Profits Tax only two years ago. He welcomed Mr. Morgenthau "into our line of thought." Why the change of heart, asked Mr. Treadway...
...year all the children in his class at the parish church pledged themselves to drink no alcoholic liquor before their majority. For fervid Frank Murphy that was not enough. He went home, took a further pledge: to his adored mother he vowed he would not touch a drop so long as he lived...
...interested," said Mr. Murphy, who long since had been inevitably labeled "St. Francis," "in uncovering any corrupt situation in any part of the country to which there is a Federal angle." In other words, observers cracked, Frank Murphy was going to catch crooks everywhere, while Tom Dewey jailed a few bad New Yorkers. Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner quoted Frank Murphy's good-&-great friend Franklin Roosevelt as telling a caller that before Frank Murphy got through Tom Dewey's achievements would begin to look like pretty small potatoes. Cherubic Columnists Alsop & Kintner also speculated...
...with half-promises, was pressed for his opinion of the Doughton scheme. "I have told you time and again that I didn't give a continental damn!" fumed Mr. Treadway. Dr. Francis Everett Townsend conceded that his new bill would immediately give oldsters only $50 instead of the long-promised $200 a month, knew that 100 (out of 435) votes for it would be a fair score, 125 good, 175 phenomenal...
...just a common thief," announced Prosecutor Dewey, abridging the principle of English and U. S. law that indictments prove nothing. The twelve counts alleged that Fritz Kuhn: 1) stole $8,907 collected at the Bund's February rally in Manhattan; 2) stole $4,424 collected to defend six Long Island Bundsters who were convicted of violating the State Civil Rights Law last July; 3) stole $565 of Bund money to move the furniture of a blonde divorcee, Mrs. Florence Camp, from Los Angeles to Manhattan;-4) stole $151 to move Mrs. Camp's furniture to Cleveland; 5) stole...