Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems are before Congress the President is apt to call Congressmen to the White House to confer. Last week he called not one conference, but one or more conferences a day. No less than 19 Senators went to the White House successively. It looked almost as if the President meant to conduct a seat by seat canvass of the Senate. He likewise delivered a long "background" talk to newshawks...
Speaking of the early history of the Supreme Court he mentioned that for over a century its Justices had to ride circuit. That, he interjected, meant actually riding on horseback, so it might be called the pre-horse-&-buggy era. Newshawks guffawed. He continued reading...
...deeply, least of all the President. The kernel of his message came when he read, "I therefore earnestly recommend . . . the appointment of additional judges in all Federal courts, without exception, where there are incumbent judges of retirement age who do not choose to retire or resign." This meant, according to the draft of the bill which he sent with his message, that he would be empowered to appoint not more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated by the President to the press...
...love's daughters descended on him for an indefinite visit, Mr. Donkin's position was further complicated, for two of the girls were old and pretty enough to set adolescent boys on their ears; the third was a tomboy tare who always fell on good ground. All meant well by Mr. Donkin, whom they adored, but their good intentions merely paved the way for his high-principled enemy's attack...
...dailies, the Guild is now organized in 201. But these 201 represent top-flight newspapers and in them the Guild now has 5,300 first-rate newshawks carrying its card. A major Guild milestone was last week's announcement from the World-Telegram. It meant that, having lined up Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News) and William Randolph Hearst (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), the Guild was now doing business with the three most important publishers in the land...