Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good humor all week, Franklin Roosevelt could chuckle as he read these words and repaired to Hyde Park, leaving Congress to stew in Washington. Nature and Franklin Roosevelt make a combination hard to beat...
...Plan to rent old warships to South America was launched in the form of a Senate resolution by Chairman David I. Walsh of the Naval Affairs Committee who read the Senate a letter from Secretary Hull explaining it as an extension of the Roosevelt "good neighbor" policy. The proposal was prompted specifically by the request of Brazil to rent six destroyers with which to train a navy to operate ships of its own now being built. The Hull letter explained that Brazil's interest in a navy was caused by "the desire on the part of some nations...
...permits the temporary reassignment of Federal district judges, limits lower-court injunctive power by requiring decisions from a three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention of the Attorney General mandatory. As the four were read the Vice President pounded his ivory gavel on his desk as though it had been on a tom-tom, shouting: "Without objection the amendment is agreed to. . . Without objection the amendment is agreed...
Almost as inappropriate as the hall's equipment in the alert eyes of the deaf-mutes, was the message from President Roosevelt read off to them on his nimble fingers by the N. A. D.'s dapper President Marcus Levi Kenner of Manhattan. Deaf-mutes applaud by waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf...
...that part of the Lehigh Valley. The experts, of whom Mr. Troxell is No. 1, resent the common designation of "Pennsylvania Dutch," insist that Pennsylvania Germans is correct. The language is better suited to the ear than to the eye, hence Pumpernickle Bill's column is read aloud to family groups in over half the homes reached by the Allentown Call...