Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthurdale gave Franklin Roosevelt a rousing hand for his memorable speech, but in Washington there was a different reaction. Judging by what he had said, the President, it seemed, had not read the new Tax Bill, or had not understood it. Among those most deeply concerned was hard-working Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Members of both houses flocked into the Senate Chamber next day to hear Pat Harrison insist that "American principles and Government principles of long standing" had not been abandoned in the Tax Bill which he had helped to write...
...bought, off Cream Street on the edge of town, since his last trip home. That evening he was host to royalty: Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern and his bride, the former Grand Duchess Kyra Romanoff. When he took them to church on Sunday morning, he was tickled by a parable read by the Rev. Frank R. Wilson. It was an essay by a school girl on Manhattan's East Side. Its subject: "True greatness." Its text...
...Ohio's affable, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, foregathered in the Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
...surgeon, Dr. St. Jacques, 66, picked up his ideas eight years ago. He had read in the Cornell Veterinarian how farm animals were treated by intravenous injections. Soon Dr. St. Jacques was dosing human beings, and getting a few other bold doctors (mostly in France) to do likewise. Last week he presented the claims for his treatment in an article in International Clinics, titled "Anthraco-therapy...
...leading advanced course for Undergraduates is Professor Jackson's History of Classical Greek Literature, Greek 12, in which both Professor Jackson and the fact that considerable selection is allowed the student in what he is going to read, are praised...