Word: overrunning
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...Rooseveltian answers to point-blank political questions by a Democratic stalwart (supposedly South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes), who was fed to the gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would not be a sound Vice Presidential candidate on a Hull ticket. Mr. Roosevelt supposedly said that Farley "has done more...
...night before sighting land the Admiral knew it was near (as the best experienced seamen do) by the look of the sea, the gathering of clouds, and the flight of birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...
Last week the Christian Front was again to the fore. G-Man John Edgar Hoover put the Front in the headlines last fortnight by seizing 17 obscure members in New York City, announcing that they had plotted to overrun the East, bomb Reds, exterminate Jews, set up a dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 22). Detroit's radiorating Father Charles E. Coughlin loudly and specifically disavowed the Christian Front to which the captives belonged. The press dug up additional detail, indicating that the captive Christian Fronters were "awful" shots and mere blustering braggarts. Michigan's squat, swart Congressman Frank Hook tried...
...Maney's principal problems was to collect enough ushers for ordinary road shows, while he was overrun with ushering talent during the weeks when we would have The Chocolate Soldier, Merry Widow and like extravaganzas of the day. Marie Dressier and even highbrows like Geraldine Farrar packed 'em in, including dozens of unneeded ushers...
...history. Its theme was not religious, not economic, but political. Born of the U. S. people's chief present concern-alarm at dictatorship's threat-these readers were entitled Democracy Readers.* If democracy can be taught from a book, the U. S. should soon be overrun with good democrats...