Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the 74 had taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
Husky young Police Chief Switter was the Labor Board's star witness. For weeks, he related, Manager Meyers, the Law & Order League and a back-to-work committee had kept "pounding" him to deputize more policemen. Chief Switter weakened only to the point of accepting from Republic a consignment of guns, ammunition and tear gas. "I finally told them it was up to the mayor," testified Chief Switter. ''They made the old boy pretty hot. Then they jumped on me. I said all right I would appoint the whole damned outfit. I would give them everything they...
...empire, had about 40% of the city's registered voters. Today it has only about 25% of the voters. If the five boroughs of the city (coterminous with its five counties) are considered as separate municipalities, the eight most populous cities of the U. S. are in approximate order: 1) Chicago. 2) Brooklyn, 3) Philadelphia, 4) Manhattan, 5) Detroit, 6) The Bronx, 7) Los Angeles, 8) Queens. The difficulties of Tammany's Manhattan political machine can therefore be compared to that of a Philadelphia political machine if it tried to dominate the politics of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles...
...after day, practically without vacations, he carries on the pace. By nightfall his nerves are in knots. Formerly he used to take a few drinks of straight whiskey in order to relax. Nowadays his friends have persuaded him to substitute Scotch highballs as easier on the stomach. The liquor serves no purpose except to relax him. Usually he then has a dinner engagement, maybe several more engagements during the evening, but he likes to get home as early as possible to romp with his two adopted children, to see his wife who used to be his secretary when...
When seconded by 16 units, the referendum demand went before President Broun and the International Executive Board, who will schedule a national vote of 11,000 Guildsmen as soon as the motions are found in proper order. Thus, after a week of squawks and counter-squawks, the four-year-old Guild found itself ready to take inventory of what it has done so far, what its future course will...