Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators Robinson, Byrnes & Harrison was typical of the confusion which prevailed in Washington last week after the first shock of the President's proposal had passed. California's Hiram Johnson, Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler made up their minds against the plan. But after the first quick division for & against, the 30-odd remaining Senators who held the balance of power were lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough pro-President...
...issued, ticket-holders must be recognized, detectives snoop about behind the rather shoddy French chairs in the showrooms, ready to pounce on cameras or sketch pads, weapons of the style pirates. Two other facts are important: 1) Though the Rue de la Paix is firmly connected in the public mind with fashion houses, hardly any of the important establishments remain on that brief street; 2) Many of the top-flight French designers are not French...
Most amazing figure in Red Málaga, and she was retained by the Whites as matron of the jail, is black Florence. "Never you mind what is my husband's name," she told correspondents. "My name is Florence and he is a nice Portuguese." "Are you Red, Florence?" "No, sir, I am black and I don't do no dabbling in politics...
...sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty bird that once roamed the island. Wrapping the prize in his loincloth, he ran with it to the chief of his village. Word of the find sped from hut to drowsy hut, and after sundown the natives jubilantly shouted...
Across the Mississippi the Governor of Illinois, Henry Horner, a lawyer, was of a different mind. To Mayor Dickmann he dispatched an urgent telegram: "Before you take final action on the ordinance before you, may I ask you fully consider the unnecessarily drastic effect which its enforcement will have on the coal industry in 15 southern Illinois counties, adjacent to St. Louis, employing 29,000 wage earners, and sending 4,000,000 tons of coal annually to your city, which is the natural market place for these counties...