Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acts, but according to what happens in their last act, often in their last scene. The exit is the thing, and Alben Barkley, who has set no records for accomplishment in his first month as Leader, still has success within his grasp if he can wind up Congress and march it off the stage without further damage to the prestige of Party and President...
...Salvador, not much bigger than Maryland, with a population of about 1,500,000, was one of the Central American countries that did not declare war on Germany. As a neutral she was invited by the League to join up at the outset, signed the Covenant in March 1920, but she rapidly proved herself a troublesome member. Soon she began to haggle about the amount of her contribution to the League, later raised objections to the cost of the International Labor Office being included in the League's budget. Why El Salvador worries so much about her League dues...
...many a sporting Briton, a sufficient reason for keeping dank Scotland in the Empire is its excellence as a breeding ground for grouse. This year there were the usual troubling reports that heavy February and March snows had scattered the grouse far afield, that coveys had been thinned by starvation and disease. But with the approach of the "Glorious Twelfth," traditional August opening of the shooting season, grouse were reported rising as thickly as ever. Last week on the moors thousands of beaters got into action with white flags, forming semicircles to drive the grouse over the concealed "butts" where...
...floor gallery of Chicago's Navy Pier, where that city's proletariat is accustomed to flock on Sundays for recreation. Distance from the gallery's west entrance to the far end is 1,300 ft., and since the paintings hung on both walls a half-mile march was necessary to see them...
Most bumptious reaction came from the American Booksellers Association, still glowing from Doubleday, Doran's triumph over Macy's in the court battle on New York's Fair Trade Act (TIME. March 22). In solemn glee A. B. A.'s Counsel Crichton Clarke called a stenographer, dictated a statement pointing out that no stores in Macy's own trading area would be favored with the new service. "Macy's does not care how much its private brands are cut in other markets," said Mr. Clarke, "but it will not permit them...