Word: recast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeated was Utah's King, who had embodied his hope of economy in a proposal for an automatic cut of 10% in all appropriations made by this session of Congress. The rest of the Senate's economy bloc had either yielded too or, succumbing to political schizophrenia, recast themselves as members of the Senate's farm bloc. When the bill came to a vote, only 14 Senators mustered courage to vote No. Even such Democratic economizers as Adams, Byrd, Byrnes, such Republican economizers as Taft and McNary, had not the political heart to say Nay. Even Carter...
...fourth resolution recast the amending process making a simple majority vote sufficient to change the constitution. There were four provisions in the fourth resolution providing that the new constitution could be adopted by a majority, amended by a majority, that the government set up under it could be reformed, altered, or abolished by a majority, and that amendments will be submitted for referendum of the people by the President
Harvard and University of California have faculties of nearly 2,000; Columbia of more than 2,000. Small college men felt that Surveyor Visher should have taken faculty size into consideration as well as number of star-winners. If his ranking were recast on that basis, these ten universities would lead...
From England out of Germany comes this screen comedy with music, now being presented at the RKO Keith Theatre. Originally produced in the Rhineland, it has been recast and filmed by Gains-borough, and now is released in America by RKO. Thursday night brought to Boston the American premiere of the picture , with Klieg lights and motion picture cameras vainly striving to turn Washington Street into Hollywood boulevard...
...father and marry his mother, Jocasta. They served also last week to provide the material for one of Conductor Leopold Stokowski's most ambitious flights into modernistic musical production: the first U. S. stage performances of the Oedipus Rex of Composer Igor Stravinsky, an opera-oratorio with a text recast by Frenchman Jean Cocteau, then Latinized. Oedipus Rex will be repeated April 21 and 22 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the only difference being that Harvard youths will sing the choruses instead of the Prince ton Glee Club. A sound film was made of the Philadelphia dress rehearsal...