Word: rams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house." Although he had pressed firmly for the treaty's ratification the President did not at the last moment roll up his sleeves and try to whip reluctant Senators into line. Even Leader Robinson made no stirring final appeal. Because it has more important measures to ram through, the Administration refrained from putting the screws on its Senate followers, thus wasting Presidential strength and risking Presidential prestige. Real significance of the St. Lawrence defeat was that the President now recognized he had to husband his power, that a simple expression of his wishes was no longer...
Governor Lehman, too high-minded to play politics with the Democratic bosses, was still determined to ram the bill through for the good of his home city. He allowed it to be amended to meet minor criticisms and last week, putting all his influence behind it again, had it brought up in the State Legislature. In the Lower House the bill failed, by 15 votes, to receive the necessary two-thirds majority, thanks to the "Noes" of 29 Democratic Assemblymen elected on the Farley-Flynn ticket...
...Franciscans favored U. S. whiskeys, particularly De Luxe ($3.35 a pint), Golden Wedding ($3), Greenbriar ($3). Old Raven ($3), Cedar Brook ($2.75). Popular gins were Old Ram's Head ($1.75 a fifth), Old Colony ($1.55) and a local product, Old Smoothie...
Among the group of gold objects is a gold fibula or safety pin, decorated with a ram's head, whose Etruscan filigree work is of the greatest rarity. Of equal prominence is a series of gold dress ornaments used on a costume to the dead...
...more to worry about in this week's game against Oregon. Last week Oregon, led by its Fullback "Mighty Mike" Mikulak, made two battering-ram 70-yd. drives through Oregon State to win 13-to-3. Oregon State was the team which held U. S. C. to a scoreless tie last month. Last week's result set Oregon up as the season's new Humpty Dumpty of the Pacific, undefeated and untied...