Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Stewart New, marched into the White House, asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected with a beam of starlight which left Arcturus during Chicago's last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from...
...permanently arched tail is the result of an operation and an excruciatingly painful setting process. A veterinarian cuts and breaks the horse's tail much as an unskilled woodsman might hack and push down a sapling. Incisions are made on, the upper side, the flexor muscles on the under side cut eight to twelve inches back from the base. Then the tail is doubled back, tightly bandaged, supported by an iron "bustle." Three weeks are usually required for the tail to heal and set. Thrown into a sweating frenzy by this prolonged torture, horses often lose more than...
While the Statesmen parleys and inflation temporarily occupy the stage front in the Washington political setting, Miss Secretary of Labor Perkins is doing her best to push her pet labor project through its last barrier, the House. This bill, known as the Black bill, makes a compulsory thirty-hour week for industry. In the process of its legal fruition it has fortunately struck a snag and there is every reason to believe sweeping changes must and will be effected in it, for as it is now constituted, this opus of Mr. Black is of serious portent to both labor...
Railroads. Four plans to push the Government even further into the railroad business than it already is were spread before President Roosevelt at a White House conference last week. Most drastic and most publicized was a plan presented by Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, whose heaviest investments are in railroads and whose particular aversion is professors in Government (TIME...
...defects I have pointed out, I maintain that the Department of Chemistry is well run, and that everyman is given a fair chance to prove his worth as a chemist. The early work is exacting, but with its mastery comes the independence and fascination of efforts to push back the boundaries of the Unknown...