Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of the nation were on him. At his elbow, equally intent, sat the Committee's counsel, bushy-browed Stephen Raushenbush, who had conscientiously sifted thousands & thousands of documents in preparation for the hearing. Senator Vandenburg smoked a cigar, tried to look urbane. Senator Clark, with round pink face and snapping eyes, sat waiting to ask sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders of the American Legion, the son of the late great Speaker of the House knew War at first hand. Before the Committee for settlement was a scandalous question: Should J. Pierpont Morgan be hated...
...House a fine new green carpet had been laid. Potted palms and photographers' lights were rigged around the rostrum. The hands of the clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver...
...obtain more important concessions in the empire than had ever been granted before. In 1923 the French and Italians congratulated themselves that a most profitable and pleasant era of Latin-Ethiopian co-operation and economic exploitation was about to open with mutual goodwill. To top off the deal with pink icing. Ethiopia at Latin insistence was admitted to full membership in the League. Only three years afterward Tafari, who had become Regent, complained of Britain and Italy to the League, having caught them exchanging notes with a view to recognizing the possession of "spheres of influence" by each other...
During this interval, at a table decorated with pink roses, stevia and maidenhair fern, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Mmes Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts...
...Hutton affairs go, the wedding was modest, though with the small number of guests the wedding cake, nicely matched to the bride's pink gown, came to $7 per slice. Only one private car was needed to carry the Washington delegation, which included Senator James J. Davis, U. S. Treasurer William A. Julian, Joseph Tumulty, George Creel, White House Secretary Stephen T. ("Steve") Early. At the reception they mingled with Bernard Baruch, Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Publisher Ogden Reid, Mrs. Billie Burke Ziegfeld...