Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly three weeks ago, Senator Van Nuys, vacationing in Michigan, received a telegram from Governor Townsend, inviting him to be a candidate for renomination before an "open" State convention. Last week, at Indianapolis. Governor Townsend orated: "I sincerely hope you will select those who will cooperate in the broad liberal program of our President for recovery and security." And Senator Van Nuys was renominated by acclamation...
Last week, with the primary almost at hand (July 23), organized Labor belatedly was out to deflate Candidate O'Daniel's sudden, sensational boom by recalling how he sponsored an open-shop movement in Fort Worth. When his rivals taunted him with having paid no poll tax he re plied: "No politician in Texas is worth $1.75." When they called him a "carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that...
...Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling. Shortly, river transport on the Niemen will open between the two countries. Last week Minister Beck alighted at Kaunas, the Lithuanian capital, paused there for half an hour of salutes, handshaking before he flew on to Riga, the Latvian capital. He was expected to make a formal visit to Kaunas soon, will try to draw Lithuania into...
...tournament favorites like Denny Shute (who had hoped to win this year's tournament for the third year in a row), Ralph Guldahl (who had hoped to add the P. G. A. to his U. S. Open title), and Gene Sarazen (who had hoped to come through again for the fourth time) all agreed that they were just as well pleased that they had not lasted until the final round...
...time the good Dr. Strauss had this speaking tube connected with a phonograph mechanism. When unwanted visitors rang the bell, a record would repeat monotonously, "Dr. Strauss is not at home. . . . Dr. Strauss is not at home." A second push of the bell would stop the record and open the door. But only Strauss's intimate friends knew enough to ring twice. Nowadays, when a visitor has been duly interrogated through the speaking tube, an electric control opens the door. But accredited visitors to the Villa Strauss are few & far between...