Word: lose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three Republican leaders? Longworth, Tilson, Snell?had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...
Changes. According to present estimates of 1930 population, the following states will gain or lose in their representation and their electoral vote...
...praise for not stealing a chicken, so no Congress man asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt certain that the Republican Legislature would...
Priests in your pulpits, Taxpayers in pews, Kings on your thrones, You know as well as me, Ye'-ve only one virginitie to lose And where ye lose it, There your hearts will be. The heart of Chicago's Joseph Medill Patterson, is in the air. Thus, a month ago, he wrote the above Kipling (with emendations) for his nickel Liberty. Then he boarded his $75.000 Sikorsky amphibian, Liberty, flew to the Caribbean (TIME, Dec. 10). With him flew a vivacious married daughter, Alicia Patterson Simpson,* 22, who a while ago preferred reporting for her father...
...McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge," said he to a friendly newsman, "is the most gorgeously beautiful sight that can be found in New York. ... If the builders . . . paint the bridge black it will be scarcely visible. ... It will lose all its gleaming beauty. It will be humdrum and ugly. Now, when the sun sets, the red bridge is glorified into burning scarlet. When the storm clouds gather, the red gleams through the threatening darkness in unequalled splendor. Rising beyond the solid green of Central Park, the gorgeousness...