Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Pressman in Washington, had an article entitled "Congress Cashes In," in which notorious Capitol extravagances were rehashed (TIME, May 30; Aug. 29). Tucked away in the text was passing reference to the fact that the Senate supplied its financial clerk with an automobile. Taking personal offense, Charles F. Pace, the Senate's veteran financial clerk, picked up his automatic pistol one morning last week, marched up to the Senate Press Gallery, demanded to see Stevenson. When told he was out, Clerk Pace flourished his gun, talked of shooting holes in his critic...
...gallery Vice President Curtis, whose feelings have repeatedly been hurt by the Press, half-jokingly remarked: "Half the fellows up in the gallery ought to be shot. They print nothing but lies. They know they're lies but they go ahead and print them anyway. If Pace does shoot anybody, I'll resign and defend...
...Protestantism has a mouthpiece it is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, founded 24 years ago to give its constituent worshippers voice on moral (not theological) questions. With altering lay attitudes on social questions the Federal Council has tried to keep pace. Whether it has outrun the minds of its constituency will be apparent this week, when some 400 clergymen and laymen representing 26 denominations gather in Indianapolis for the Sixth Quadrennial Meeting of the Federal Council. Ready for the delegates' perusal are voluminous reports by many a committee, on such innocuous matters as goodwill, race...
...News columns headlined the story but few people took account of it until a few days later when she made her formal U. S. concert debut in Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists ever attain. As the audience's excitement grew she played faster & faster. There seemed no limit to the speed with which her fingers could cover the keys. But aside from her technical skill and tremendous vitality, however, the critics found...
...motorcade stood waiting. At the swift pace which he always prefers, the Governor of New York and next President of the country was swept down the Hudson to Manhattan. On the way he stopped for luck at a firehouse-he had done that in 1928, to telephone his daughter, while being elected Governor. Then the motorcade rushed on, special reason for its speed being that Gus Generich, one of the bodyguards, had to get in town to vote. Meantime throughout the length & breadth of the land, some 40,000,000 citizens were proceeding in quiet, orderly fashion to cast their...