Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, when Al Smith ran for President, bellowed at by Alabama's Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin, who mortally hated & feared the "Pope of Rome,"* Catholicism was brought forward as an issue in U. S. life. There can be no doubt that religious intolerance was a large factor in Al Smith's defeat. Since 1928, Pius XI's U. S. priesthood has got in some good licks on anti-Catholic sentiment. So skilfully have they stimulated U. S. reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed...
...Administration's feeble grip on important Rules, which Messrs. Dies, Dempsey (New Mexico) and Cor (Georgia) ran pretty much to suit themselves during the hearings. At one point poor old Chairman Sabath was nearly in tears as he banged on the table and shouted: "Don't do this! Don't do this! Gentlemen, please...
...relation to the tobacco Reynoldses. He comes from the vote-gettin' Reynoldses. Back home in Buncombe County his daddy was a court clerk. Uncle Henry was chief of police, Uncle Dan sheriff, Uncle Gus tax collector. When young Bob first ran for local office 28 years ago, he was smart enough to tell the voters that he didn't give a hoot for them, that he was out for a job and the money. They loved it. Prime dandy of the Senate when he is in Washington, he wears old clothes and drawls...
...With the Carnation Milk program to direct in Chicago Monday nights and the Magic Key in Manhattan Sundays, he commuted by air between the two cities for 58 weeks. To give air travel its due, he never missed an engagement. But in those 58 weeks, he "ran the entire gamut of airplane adventure except for being killed." He was gashed and kayoed when bumpy air over the troublesome Nittany Mountains conked him against an overhead baggage rack. He once watched ambulances gather below him at Newark when his ship could not get its landing gear down. He weathered innumerable forced...
...people by their voices, and can readily identify a voice he has not heard for yean Once at a party he was asked to accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein. Asked if he knew the accompaniment to Lalo Symphonie Espagnole he said no, but the he would try it if somebody ran through once. While the 32-minute-long accompaniment was played, Templeton listened attentively, then played the whole thing from memory, made one mistake...