Word: regularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoning his Legislature for a special session to meet immediately after the regular session closed, Governor Murphy asked for a modified version of his model labor law. The House acquiesced but the Senate not only refused to pass the new bill but re-passed the old one, the Governor's support having been weakened by the fact that one Democratic Senator was unavoidably detained in jail. Defection of other Democrats led to heavy fisticuffing on the floor, after which the Senate abruptly adjourned, leaving the House still sitting. Over the weekend one lone Senator carried on as a sort...
Naturally Franklin Roosevelt was angry and irritable. He barked orders at his private secretariat and in the confines of the Executive Offices made no secret of his intense resentment, but 24 hours after his defeat he had himself well under control when he met his regular press conference. As cheerful as usual, he delivered a homily on the Court situation, undertaking to look at it in historical perspective...
...special election to fill Walker's place, he chose a Tammany wheelhorse, Surrogate Judge John P. O'Brien, and maneuvered McKee off the ballot. O'Brien was elected but 125,000 angry citizens wrote in McKee's name on the ballot. Next year at the regular election, Tammany backed O'Brien again. Jim Farley, with whom Tammany had been on the outs since Walker's trial, arranged a Recovery ticket headed by McKee. Outraged citizens of all parties united to form a Fusion ticket headed by Fiorello LaGuardia. In the election LaGuardia ran first...
...Davis will not alter National Park's four-year preparatory curriculum, but plans to expand its junior college course, advertise it more extensively than ever. He favors plenty of bowling, swimming, gymnastics for his girls, regular parties for neighboring collegians, frequent excursions to Washington nine miles away. Says he: "I look on this school as a magnificent laboratory...
...definite signs that the curtain was coming down on what Correspondent Jay Franklin called "hot aeronautics" and "the prima donna type of aviator." The House Naval Affairs Committee prepared to consider legislation which would prohibit the Navy from undertaking costly searches for lost aircraft unless the latter were in regular commercial service or on missions of "unquestionable scientific value." Pilot Dick Merrill, who flies the Atlantic by dead reckoning, and Manhattan Columnist Mark Hellinger were bluntly refused permission to make a round-the-world flight. Snapped Assistant Secretary of Commerce Colonel John Monroe Johnson: "From now on no individual will...