Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over when the Minority brought on another. The Republicans granted William Lemke, who ran for President on the Union Party ticket, and his colleague from North Dakota, Usher Burdick, committee places as Republicans but deprived them of seniority. One Republican explained the reason to Mr. Burdick: When the Republicans return to power they do not want "a Bolshevik for chairman of a committee." Cried Mr. Burdick to the caucus: "Gentlemen, the Bolsheviks of the type you mention will man every committee of this Congress long before the Republican party is returned to power under your leadership." Stormed Mr. Lemke...
...England's great, liberal Manchester Guardian observed in a gentlemanly salute to Trotsky last week, "Let us hope he will find a sure refuge in Mexico-a revolutionary country where a great revolutionary may be appreciated and understood." At latest reports, Host Diego Rivera had had to return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest Trotsky, respectfully watched and waited on by dark-eyed young Hostess Rivera, had resumed dictation to his secretaries of his monumental Biography of Lenin, begun nearly...
...Review minus its familiar red, white & blue cover, still more astonished to read an editorial notice: "Today the Saturday Review resumes its old position as the leading Conservative weekly." Leaving no doubt about their repudiation of their former angel, the editors further announced: "The dictatorship is over and we return to constitutional government...
Officers of the bureau have not yet despaired, however, and the Harvard Date Bureau, or some date bureau, is sure to be the outcome of their plans. Just what will ensue eventually is not yet known, but Harvard men are sure to get their dates in return...
...gift was a miniature pen knife made from a piece of platinum steel produced by Faraday over a hundred years ago. Together with the knife, Sir Robert enclosed a letter requesting that a penny be paid in return, citing the age-honored fear that should a pointed instrument be given away, a quarrel is sure to ensue between the two parties involved. President Conant said that he will comply with the request...