Word: putted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President Garner and others last week dissuaded West Virginia's anti-Roosevelt young Senator Rush Holt from introducing a resolution to put the Senate on record against a third term. Such resolutions were passed to head off third terms for Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge. Reason for Garner & Co.'s delay: lack of a sufficiently impressive majority just yet for the resolution...
...Textiles, where C. I. O.'s temporary organizing committee under Sidney Hillman has just been turned into a permanent union with contracts covering some 400,000 of textiles' estimated 1,200,000 workers. A. F. of L. proposes to put organizers, money and life into a presently feeble rival, has yet to do much about it. Their big battleground: the South. > Automobile manufacturing, where, as in textiles, A. F. of L. owes its foothold to an anemic minority which recently deserted C. I. O. The Federation's Homer Martin slightly bettered his position last week. Instead...
...cheerful West Pointer who shouldered the load of grief which Harry Hopkins put down just in time, Administrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington of WPA, last week went up to the Capitol armed with a 39-page statement and a heart full of spunk. The subcommittee charged with producing a Relief bill for 1940. headed by Virginia's urbane Representative Woodrum, had heard scores of witnesses. Now at last it was the turn of "Pink" Harrington, the one man most vitally affected by changes the bill they had already drafted would make in his regime...
Scottish David Kirkwood, M. P. for Dumbarton Burghs on the ship-building Clyde, depends for Parliamentary repartee largely on two phrases: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" (when he has made a killing shot); and "I don't give a damn" (when he has been worsted). Once he was suspended from the House for swearing at the Speaker. Last week the vaulted ceiling of the House rumbled with his rolling r's as he declared that millions of acres of land devoted to deer parks in Scotland (see map), most of it owned by titled gentry...
...this point that Virginia-born M. P. Lady Astor, ever ready to put in her tuppence worth, interrupted. She owns a deer park on the Isle of Jura, she said, which is all moss and peat and "fit for nothing but deer." Not even trout could be raised on it. Spunkily Lady Astor offered to build Mr. Kirkwood a cottage on her deer park on Jura and bet him he could not make a living off it. Machinist Kirkwood is no farmer, but he accepted-much too hastily, it turned out. The discussion was continued in the lobby...