Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their small populations do not legally support more than one House member.* Only one State, Illinois, has two Representatives-at-large, in addition to 25 regular Congressmen tucked away in their own districts, because it is gerrymandered and does not choose to carve out two new districts, at the risk of upsetting Republican preponderance, to meet its exact allowance of House representation. Illinois' Representatives-at-large are sort of Class B Senators: their pay is the same and they are chosen by the same State-wide electorate. But on the House floor they behave like other Congressmen...
...water, after ten in the evening appears and disappears apparently at will. Anyone inclined to shower as late as ten-thirty does so at his own risk. A turn of the hot water tap, even when accompanied with prayers, is fully as likely to bring on acute pneumonia as steam. It is this uncertainly lurking in the plumbing which is the prime cause for discontent so manifest among even the most select of shower-room circles...
...Into a Memphis, Tenn., department store walked James D. Smith of Corinth, Miss., asked for credit and a charge account. For reference he gave "Herbert Hoover, the White House." The President, queried by the store, responded that Mr. Smith was a "good risk," that he was the contractor who had built the Hoover home at Palo Alto...
...largest objection in Congress where many doubted its constitutionality. Wet Congressmen complained that it would deprive citizens of the right of trial by jury, that petty offenders would have either to plead guilty to a misdemeanor before a U. S. Commissioner, or, if demanding a jury trial, run the risk of a felony conviction under the Jones Law. Attorney General Mitchell called this proposal the Commission's "most important and constructive suggestion . . . for speeding up the work and relieving the Federal judges of burdensome details...
...upset the nicely balanced applecart of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's ticklish Indian policy. There is little doubt that Scot MacDonald wants to give India the semi-independent status of Canada, but he does not dare. His majority in the House of Commons is too slim to risk on the Indian issue. Therefore, the canny Scot prompted the Viceroy, Baron Irwin. to make a carefully weaseled proclamation (TIME, Nov. 18). Some of it was supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some of it was supposed to reassure Englishmen that nothing of the kind...