Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garner has a cute statement to match that one: "I am not giving a living soul permission to speak for me or to put forth my name as a candidate-but, I'm not telling anybody...
Leaving to others such national projects as Recovery, Economy, National Defense, new Attorney-General Frank Murphy has devoted his energies to cleaning up bad spots in the Department of Justice. Last week he put his finger on U. S. deputy marshals, of whom his Department employs 992 at $1,800 to $3,700 per year...
Under Homer Cummings last year, marshals and deputies were required to be fingerprinted. Seven were discovered to have criminal records. Also, FBI started investigating the character of candidates for marshal jobs. Going further, Frank Murphy last week asked Congress to put all deputies into the Civil Service and require them to take physical examinations. The last was inspired by a certain 400-pounder in Illinois who, too fat to get out of his car to serve warrants, employed as his helper a village character called Silly Willy...
...Sober Woodrow Wilson liked to put on a record in the Oval Room after dinner and practice a jig step, envied minstrel dancers because they "took on no more at their hearts than they could kick off at their heels." Another diversion of the 28th President of the U. S.: after long White House receptions he "loved to get upstairs and twist his face about. . . . He could make his ears move and elongate his face or broaden it in a perfectly ludicrous...
Cruel, unwarranted and frequently untrue have been the jokes leveled at WPA. An effort is afoot to put an end to them on the stage. But WPA itself has not ceased making them. Last week it was discovered that a WPA slum clearance gang, sent to tear down a house at 158 Belmont Ave., Brooklyn, found the houses in the block unnumbered, razed No. 156 by mistake...