Word: pets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pet monkeys and turtles as pets in Harvard dormitories are no longer news, but a lazily affectionate three foot water snake as a solace to weary hours of study is at least unusual...
Legislative hobbies: silver, farmers, railways. A Senator of so many liberal interests champions many a lost cause. One pet cause backed by Senator Wheeler which won: recognition of Soviet Russia ("We're suckers if we don't"). An expert on railway affairs, he has long favored lower valuations, lower rates. Two years ago he was out for a "Farmers' RFC" capitalized at $500,000,000 authorized to issue thrice that amount in debentures. His big campaign of late has been 16-to-1 silver. He is leader of the Western Silver bloc which has crowded President Roosevelt...
...tall, teacherish shamrock waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia. He endorsed it but rose to champion the idea that the few small nations still opposed should be invited to air their views in open assembly. Shaking a bony finger at his pet aversion, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, and at M. Barthou, the Free State's de Valera cried: "The whole question of procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that...
...part in lending to business. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sent a platoon of professors into the Chicago Federal Reserve district to find out who was holding up credit expansion. But not until last week did it occur to anyone in Washington to look for the Administration's pet banking villain right inside the Treasury. At a Washington conference of national bank examiners President Francis Marion Law of the American Bankers Association politely suggested that perhaps the periodic examinations were so strict that bankers feared to do anything except sit on the vault...
...Duchess puts poison in Cellini's wine. Cellini gives the wine to a courtier he dislikes, pretends to be dead until the Duchess, overcome with remorse, embraces him upon the floor. An accident restores Cellini to complete control of the scandalous situation. Angela calls the Duke by his pet name, causing the Duchess to perceive that her husband has been unfaithful. At the end of The Affairs of Cellini, the goldsmith and the Duchess are walking slyly out of the room, leaving the Duke and Angela to do as they think best...