Word: rife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newly created Flemish Academy of Science. The Walloons were furious and the Cabinet of Premier Paul Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert Pierlot-was again about to resign when His Majesty stepped in. He refused to accept the resignations, ordered new elections on April 2 and then sat down and wrote his ministers an extraordinary letter...
...Senator Adams' committee were asked by David Lasser, head of the Workers Alliance: "Is the majority in this Congress trying deliberately to provoke a situation of social disorder?"; were told by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, president of the United States Conference of Mayors: "Havoc will be rife throughout the nation." A committee of actors & artists visited Washington bearing petitions with 200,000 signatures demanding continuance of WPA arts projects. Cafeteria, hotel & restaurant workers telegraphed en masse. Senator Adams got one telegram which was delivered as follows: "Are you a man or a delete...
...East in Addition to Professor Frankfurter, here are, of course, other possibilities, and the strongest of those is Judge Lehman of the New York Court of Appeals and brother of the Governor. Reports were rife last September, when Governor Lehman was being urged to save Democracy from Tom Dewey, that if the Governor would only run, his brother could order a new black robe and take his place at one end of the Supreme Bench. It is just because those reports were so frequently heard that it would be extremely embarrassing now for the President to appoint Mr. Lehman...
Forty Quincy Street, the new Freshman dormitory, entered the news for the first time yesterday as tales of locked doors, fire alarms and a Yardling Lady Godiva ran rife...
...year-old dancer was detained by an extra rehearsal, reportedly called because some cuts were to be made in the production which was considered too long. The diners, unaware of this, craned their necks to look at everyone who entered the hall and speculation was rife as to whether the chorine at one table was Miss Zorina...