Word: revamping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crop of curly reddish hair the round pug-nosed face of Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost single-handed...
...their employes longer than six hours per day, five days per week. Its sponsors declared it represented the crystallization of the best economic thought of the times to limit the hours of labor to spread unemployment. Its genesis was blamed on the conservative backwardness of U. S. industry to revamp itself to meet new conditions...
...long regarded as a true picture of Harvard life by everyone except Harvard students. Newspaper clippings record that at the first performance of this play in Boston, twenty years before, "The college showed very tangible disapproval." Vegetables were probably the order of the day. H. D. C. decided to revamp the production. Under satirical treatment, "Brown of Harvard" responded nobly. With due melodrama the hero thwarted those who would tread on his good name and arrived in the nick of time to lead his crew to victory over Oxford. Harvard cheered loud and lustily, and seemed fully to catch...
Humper? G. O. P. strategists including Secretaries Mills and Hurley and Postmaster General Brown, trooped to the White House in the wake of the Maine returns. They spent long gloomy hours with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have...
...rescued, Tammany's Walker remarked: "Talk about the market! My blood pressure dropped seven points today to 103, a new low!"* In Chicago where municipal credit has long been at rock bottom, financial relief also came into sight last week when the Illinois Legislature passed a bill to revamp Cook County's taxing machinery. A non-political taxing board, under this measure, will replace elective assessors whose lopsided and unfair assessments have been the root of Chicago's tax troubles...