Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious that the Senator intended to filibuster until midnight for which adjournment was set. Half a dozen Senators protested. Washington's Schwellenbach, ringleader of the "freshman" group who made the Kingfish toe the mark during his previous filibuster (TIME., June 24), sat down behind him to harry him, see that he observed the rules. Huey Long rambled on & on, stalking up and down, heeding no pleas, no sarcasms. He called the House "435 dumbbells," was called to order. Democratic leaders conferred on stopping the clock until Huey Long was exhausted, finally decided...
...with the world. To blast Depression, say Social Crediteers, is as simple as any other sort of blasting once you know the trick. Major Douglas supposedly knows it better than anyone else. Possession of this Great Secret has somewhat oppressed the Major, caused him to write : "We all know Mark Twain's story of the man who was imprisoned for 20 years and then walked out, having just discovered the door never had been locked, and some of us think it funny. I consider it a some what boring statement of fact. The world at large is in prison...
...member of the student council, a member of the debating team, president of the band, was on the staff of the school annual, and was a leader in school clubs. This year he won the D. A. R. prize in the city of Flint for receiving the highest mark in a high school competitive examination in United States history...
...Senate investigators reported that A. G. & E.'s admitted expenditures of $700,000 to defeat the Public Utility Bill were $92,000 short of the mark. Among those reported to have had A. G. & E. retainers: the law firms of Patrick J. Hurley, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of War, and of Basil O'Connor, onetime partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt and brother of House Rules Chairman John J. O'Connor, each...
...metaphysicians. At the root of their outlook is the fact that they have almost no knowledge of natural laws and almost no conception of cause & effect. They do not know why people get sick and die, why crops fail, why there are droughts or rains, why arrows miss their mark or why hunters are mangled by beasts. Therefore they ascribe every mishap to the action of sorcerers, or of enemies practicing everyday magic, or of invisible influences about whose nature they speculate little but which they feel around them everywhere and which they try to circumvent by any means available...