Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressional leaders summoned to the White House a few hours after the President's return, verified his truculent mood. First conferee was gruff Senate Majority Leader Robinson. Emerging after an hour, he growled: "The battle will...
Finally, overshadowing all the rest, the President called for a finish fight on his Court Plan. Dictating a statement after his White House Conference, Senator Robinson declared: "I see no prospect at this stage of any adjustment or agreement...
...remembered: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson. Of the U. S. poets which the first third of the 20th Century has brought to birth, modern readers could name a dozen who are fairly well-known: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Conrad Aiken. Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st Century? Eliot and Pound, heading most contemporary lists, seem fairly safe. Last week another name was proposed for the Hall of Fame; and Proposer...
...looked bigger but was not mandatory and might end up as no saving at all, depending on the President. This was a tempting proposition. Congressmen could take credit for promoting Economy, the President all blame for sinking it. Such was the temper of Congress, however, that Senators Robinson, Byrnes, McKellar and other, less regular, supporters of the Administration came out strongly against it, declaring that they preferred a certain 10% cut (about $350,000,000 net after fixed charges) in the hand, to a possible 15% cut ($1,100,000,000) in the bush. After this Senate backfire, Speaker Bank...
Freshmen: stroke, Henry Curwen, Robinson Stevens, Walter Kernan, Phillips Hallowell, John R. Richards, John Rowe, Harry Wood, Gaylord Dillingham, and George Shortlidge...