Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was exactly what Filibusterer Connally had counted on. Three days later New York's Robert Wagner took the hint, prepared to sidetrack his Anti-Lynching Bill by bringing in the waiting conference report on his Wagner-Steagall Housing Amendment. When that is disposed of, the conference report on the Farm Bill will also be "privileged" over the Anti-Lynching Bill, keeping it off the floor until its sponsors can gracefully withdraw. Thus last week the legislation that the South, by hook, crook, or filibuster, has throttled in Congress for 35 years seemed to be throttled once more...
...Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States it is my Constitutional duty to report to the Congress that our national defense is, in the light of the increasing armaments of other nations, inadequate for purposes of national security and requires increase for that reason." With these words-the meat of his long-awaited Rearmament message -Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week called upon the country for the greatest naval construction program since the days when he was Woodrow T. Wilson's Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The rest of his message was given over...
...Well aware that a big Navy is bound to arouse loud if not effective Congressional opposition, President Roosevelt informed Congress: "It is with the deepest regret that I report to you that armaments increase today at an unprecedented and alarming rate. It is an ominous fact that at least one-fourth of the world's population is involved in merciless, devastating conflict. . . . Tension throughout the world is high." For support of his program he appealed to almost all apathetic or opposition groups except pacifists...
...royal couple will arrive in the United States on June 27, according to the report. If the consular officials expect him to get his degree at Commencement, they will be surprised, more than somewhat, since Commencement is on June...
...most persistent report, served gratuitously with many a meal in House dining halls. Was to the effect that a "secret clause," "another paper" had been agreed to at the same time whereby the University ceded the union a preferential shop...