Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn last week of Joseph B. Keenan, first Assistant to the Attorney General and a political specialist in the Janizariat, to repeat what has become the official story about a Third Term: that Franklin Roosevelt would run again "if needed." The Keenan version: "Americans can be of good cheer, for I am sure if the occasion arises where any star of liberal leadership becomes dimmed, we can rely upon that one great American to continue the battle. . . . He will not see the humane policies which he has instituted perish...
...investigator, he testified before it two months ago that the Bund, on the surface a minuscule singing, beer-bibbing and marching society, was in reality a hateful Nazi network with some 500,000 U.S. sympathizers. Last week Chairman Dies made a timely move by recalling Witness Metcalfe to repeat and amplify his previous testimony, having him dress in his Bund uniform for photographers...
...earnestly repeat that so long as negotiations continue, differences may be reconciled. Once they are broken off, reason is banished and force asserts itself...
...Ambassador Hotel, where Douglas Corrigan was assigned a double suite with no less a roomie than Governor Frank F. Merriam. While Governor Merriam took phone calls ("Mr. Corrigan's suite. Mr. Merriam speaking. . . ."), Douglas Corrigan admonished woolgathering reporters to listen more sharply and hold their tongues, refused to repeat answers to questions. When the ticklish interview was over, Reporter Agness Underwood of the Herald & Express ducked into Corrigan's half of the suite to telephone her story in time for her paper's next edition. "Who's that in my room?" growled Corrigan like all three...
...Congress, nature-loving former Governor James Graves Scrugham. remembers seeing once, in the high Sierras, a mother eagle pushing her young one by one out of their eyrie over a sheer abyss, letting them flutter far earthward, swooping to save them just before they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind...