Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. This year, for the first time in a decade. Wets have made sufficient gain in the primaries, with more in prospect in the election, to feel that a turning tide of public sentiment is at last in their favor. Well aware are they cf the fact that their muster roll in the 72nd Congress will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy. But the eyes of their leaders are looking for results not in the 72nd Congress but in some Congress to follow, perhaps ten Congresses from now. Men like...
...Poultry Congress at London amid so many sounds that his ov,n slight stutter passed unnoticed. Aged 34 and father of one, H. R. H. genially inspected and praised "The Grandmother of English Hens," a venerable bird just seven years his junior. Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl...
...great State of California, last week definitely placed himself at the head of the tiny Senate army opposed to the treaty. He commanded about a dozen votes. To beat the pact, he needs 33 (one more than one-third of the 96 Senators). To gain time to muster new recruits, "Captain" Johnson demanded, apparently without hope, that the pact go over until the December session of Congress. President Hoover and Senators actively supporting the treaty were less concerned at the numerical size of the Johnson army than they were at the Senate's general apathy. Up to last week...
Work Done. Newsmen know that little is ever accomplished during their perennial Manhattan muster save chit-chat and jollification. Chief business done by the A. P.: the re-election of Publisher Frank Brett Noyes of the Washington Star to be president; the promotion of Associate Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only...
...occasion for the muster at Patchogue is a socialite benefit performance. And although the onetime troupers are delighted to see one another again, Sissy and Queenie are loth to admit publicly their acquaintanceship with Rosie and the spangled past. But after Sissy's daughter marries a musicomedian, and after Sissy's husband admits clandestine friendship for the free-and-easy Rosie, and after Patchogue society ostracizes Sissy's entire household, the curtain bangs down on a scene of beer-drinking good-fellowship between the aging handmaidens of Buffoonery...