Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's newspaper conference method, the absence of what we call 'trained seals,' his geniality, his use of first names, his numerous small private hospitalities to the Press-all these undoubtedly have won him a regard among the reporters which, I do not for a moment doubt, impels many of them to give him and his plans the best of it when there is a best that can be given without violence to the facts...
...have already stated, it is only because of the current emergency of unemployment and because of the physical impossibility of surveying, weighing and testing each and every project that a segregation of items is clearly impossible at the moment...
...would not have the members of your committee for a moment to think that this protest is motivated by a spirit of retaliation, that I am unduly peeved and aggrieved at an injustice or an affront done me personally. To make objection to confirmation upon that unsound basis would be unworthy of a United States Senator...
Around a table at San Quentin Prison one morning last week met Frank C. Sykes of San Francisco; Joseph H. Stephens, Sacramento banker; Warren Atherton, Stockton lawyer. They were members of California's Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and at the moment none was particularly happy about it. Clyde Stevens, a notorious bandit, had just accomplished his fourth bank robbery since they paroled him last October. The Press was hounding them again for laxity...
...BREATHLESS MOMENT - The World's Most Sensational News Photos- Knopf...