Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones became Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee. With Manuel Quezon at his elbow. Chairman Jones wrote the act which gave the Islands a bicameral Legislature, a Cabinet of six, of which five had to be Filipinos, and promised to set them free at the earliest possible moment. That moment had to wait until the Democrats ruled Washington again...
...Biggest moment of a busy week for every member of the Court was when once more it sat in judgment on the question of whether much of the New Deal is legal or illegal. The case arose over a bale of cotton numbered 407784. One night a year ago at Clarksdale in Coahoma County, Miss., Fred Hastings allegedly asked Jed B. Earner, a Negro helper, to steal cotton from the warehouse of Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. Black Jed quietly rolled three bales of cotton, one of them No. 407784, out of the warehouse. He confessed that for these services...
Jimmy Durante, the man with no inhibitions, who is constantly searching among Jumbo's scores of females to find one who is not "face-crazy." Mr. Durante's big moment comes when he leads out the show's one elephant, points to the pachyderm's snout and then to his own, exclaims, "Me and him's related!" then suddenly finds that his relative has rolled over...
...Queens, N. Y. and one drove on without stopping, a bystander jotted down the license number, notified police. Few minutes later radios in Queens, Manhattan & Bronx police cars intoned: "Signal 32. Signal 32.* Stop car 1N-72-35 heading for New York, liable to cross Queensboro Bridge any moment." At Queensboro Bridge five patrolmen lay in wait, finally spotted car 1N-72-35 inching toward them in the heavy traffic. Training a repeating rifle on the burly driver, they ordered him out, gulped when they recognized George Herman ("Babe") Ruth...
...Bankers Association in Washington last year, most of the delegates packed up for home feeling that they had been cheated out of a just revenge for two years of New Deal badgering. Itching to stick out their tongues at Franklin D. Roosevelt, they had been muzzled just at the moment when the President might have noticed them. Instead of offering defiance, the ABA officially proffered peace in a dramatic speech from Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). As far as rank & file ABA members were concerned, the famed "truce with the White...