Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came the dress rehearsal. Luckily (at Wood's suggestion, I think) the audience was small. Only Wood, Leslie Howard, Producer Gilbert Miller and I knew what was coming. A scream from the blackened stage indicated a time relapse of 145 years. The Wood subaudible note was "sounded," or more accurately, turned on. I was reminded years later of the effect by the sound from the bowels of the earth that yet was no sound, that preceded the big shock of the Los Angeles earthquake. The glass in every chandelier in the old Lyric commenced to tinkle softly, the opaque...
...special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress. As the end approached, Franklin Roosevelt felt kindly enough toward the members to scribble each chamber a note on his private green letter paper. ". . . Much constructive legislation for the benefit of the people. Definitely, we are making progress...
...same time the President: 1) announced that he thought WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins had been well within his rights when he applauded the candidacy of Otha Wearin, 2) discouraged the movement in the Senate to investigate WPA's political practices, 3) sent a note to Minnesota's WPAdministrator, Victor Christgau...
...more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau and the Farmer-Labor vote in Minnesota, the President wrote a curt note, demanded Administrator Christgau's resignation, gave no reason, not even leafy spurge or creeping jenny...
...ripples. To judge whether the tide is ebbing or flowing, an observer watches the height to which successive waves lap on the beach; if the tide has been coming in, and the waves fall shorter & shorter. he suspects the tide has changed. Dow Theorists indeed watch two beaches, note the waves of both industrials and rails, do not act until one confirms the other...