Word: passing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Huey Long the shortening salesman, Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman, has the common touch. He solicits campaign cash in little barrels (passed by smiling Pat, Mike & Molly) labeled "Flour-NOT Pork." As a slogan he uses a line from one of his songs: "Please pass the biscuits, Pappy!" When people interrupt his speeches to ask where Texas will get the money to pay $41,000,000 yearly in old-age pensions, he says to his musicians: "Strike up a tune, boys...
...thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped glass 2½ ft. high) which custom says he must fill and pass round & round & round...
...middle ground." Mr. Baker's organizers found the social workers at Seattle about equally divided between: 1) Elders who regarded themselves rather as members of a profession than as proletarians. 2) Juniors who felt that the day of rewarding social workers with much praise and small pay should pass, and that the way to make it pass was to organize...
This last was the respect in which the Earle law provided a parallel to the new Federal Wages-&-Hours Bill. And it was the respect in which it failed to pass the court. Including H. Edgar Barnes. Earle's appointee and the only Democrat on the bench, the seven justices ruled as though they were paraphrasing the U. S. Supreme Court's NRA opinion: that a legislature cannot legally "abdicate, transfer or delegate" its powers to an administrator...
...jobs lost, the careers ruined, were U. S. Democratic Party Leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ape Italian Fascist Party Leader Benito Mussolini in prescribing gymnastic tests for his party henchmen. Doubtful it is that sickly, 64-year-old Speaker William Bankhead of the House of Representatives, could pass a rope-skipping examination; that suffering Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, would survive a pole-vaulting test; that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley would fare well with the broad jump, or that bald, short House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could throw a discus very...