Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down than the South's textile mills. Furthermore, by taking the lead in condemning the Sit-Down while Franklin Roosevelt preserved silence, the Senate would be doing the President a good turn -as Texas Jack Garner, stanch backer of the Byrnes proposal, was heard remarking to Majority Leader Robinson...
Soon as the Senate convened next day, Senator Robinson resumed, with every parliamentary trick in his bag, his attempts to get the Byrnes hot potato tossed out to cool in committee. But newshawks noted that gruff Joe Robinson was arguing with unaccustomed joviality. He grinned when, each time he asked for unanimous consent, North Carolina's Bailey boomed: 'T object...
Having salved their consciences by such objections, virtually the entire contingent of Administration Senators joined in killing the Byrnes' Rider by 48-10-36 - but only after Leader Robinson had promised that a separate Sit-Down resolution would get early consideration...
Unfortunately Denmark intimated rather strongly to the State Department that it did not want another woman minister. However, with W. Forbes Morgan, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson as her sponsors, Mrs. Harriman's cause was in good hands. Norway, the first nation to grant woman suffrage, was an obvious post for a woman diplomat. Last week Norway had only to say "yes" in order to have Daisy Harriman show the Scandinavians how entertaining should be done in a U. S. legation...
...been strangled. Judging from her bruised knuckles and the traces of skin and grey hair later found beneath her nails, she had fought her assailant. The roomer, deaf, had presumably been murdered in his sleep. The murderer had then waited until the daughter came home at 3 a.m. Charles Robinson who lived on the top floor reported, "As I came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor [at 2:10 a.m.] I noticed the door of their flat was half open. As I came nearer it closed-slowly and very quietly. But whoever was behind it kept...