Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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So firmly had he impressed rule No. 1 upon Texans who came up to Congress after him that when the Democrats' big day came and he left the House after one term as Speaker, his Texas bloc possessed a degree of control out of all proportion to Texas'...
This split between the President and his Vice President really dates from the winter of 1937 when John Garner bluntly berated Franklin Roosevelt for doing nothing about the Sit-Down strikes. Subsequently he made his famed remark (perhaps apocryphal, but truer than history): "You've got to give the...
A. F. of L.'s President William Green had gone home to Coshocton, Ohio. So sure that nothing could happen was C. I. O.'s Lewis that he dared to get funny. No sooner had the President concluded than John Lewis handed to Franklin Roosevelt, Fanny Perkins and...
"Somehow nothing is quite right when one suddenly spends ten million dollars," is a comment made about the Houses by a Harvard alumnus in a new novel by John P. Marquand '15, Pulitzer Prize winner and satirist of Boston's intellectual society.
In restaurants selling liquor, the average wage in the Square is $8, with some places paying less than this amount. In Boston, girls not infrequently work for nothing in such establishments and live exclusively on tips.