Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lobbyists sat on the edge of their seats in a ring around the Senate Gallery. Administration leaders on the floor below tried to put on a brave front in the face of expected defeat. The Senate was about to follow the House, to pass a bill for immediate payment of the Bonus...
Philosophers' Ring. As farmers watched their growing cotton, wheat, piglets, so the Department of Agriculture watched the progress of its amendments. Chief of those crop watchers in Washington was the overlord of AAA, Henry Agard Wallace, a Democratic Secretary of Agriculture, son of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture, trying his philosophic best to reach the ends his late father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, sought in vain a dozen years...
...ring of agricultural philosophers who sit around Son Wallace's chair included year and a half ago George Peek (as AAAdministrator). But Mr. Peek departed after a difference of doctrine with Son Wallace's chief guide, philosopher & friend, Rexford Guy Tugwell. Today Undersecretary Tugwell. chiefly occupied with his part as director of national "resettlement" under the Works Relief Act, is not the foremost member of that philosophical ring. Chester C. Davis, whom the elder Wallace originally brought to Washington to work on the McNary-Haugen plan, is now Son Wallace's chief AAA man. Those...
...small blue velvet jewel case containing lady's cameo ring set in white gold square, basket style
...House Plan. This very success, however, brings with itself problems which, though not demanding immediate remedy, will make themselves troublesomely obvious. With 819 Freshmen applying for the less than 700 vacancies, the cries of indignation from the large number of students who are bound to be disappointed will ring loud and unmistakable throughout the Yard. Although the prospect of becoming one of the "forgotten men" of Little and Claverly will naturally alarm rejected applicants, they will do well to make an effort to understand the conditions before racing indignantly wild-eyed to a group of unfortunate men who would like...