Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
...finish-post was passed, Jockey Key Pittman of Nevada neatly unhorsed himself with the flat pronouncement that he did not expect Franklin Roosevelt to proclaim defined combat areas (next day the President did). Nothing dashed by this tumble, the lean Nevadan mounted again on the most improbably romantic idea of the week: that U. S. ships are to be provided with distinctive markings for each side: that the Germans would be advised of the markings on one side, while the Allies would be told of the other. The markings, said Mr. Pittman gravely, would be visible for five miles. Further...
...after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
Last January the bonfire girls found a match: the U. S. Government had never officially appointed her to her post. Franklin Roosevelt quietly appointed a chum of Mesdames Perkins, Dewson and his wife -Mary Winslow of Washington-to the "vacancy." But Miss Stevens thwarted the bonfire girls. She refused to leave office...
...Communist-Fascist threat to democracy, Liberal Beard wanted the embargo kept, lashed out at "giddy minds and foreign quarrels" like an outraged professor lecturing unruly students who have got his goat. Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard said his liberal say in the Nation, in the New York Evening Post, in a new book, Our Military Chaos that repeated his old fear of militarism...