Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was still anxious to save face by keeping the nature of the settlement dark, and avoiding a roll call. Neither was possible that afternoon when the issue was settled on the floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
...Verden, Okla., 587 strong, had expected Pete's arrival ever since Saturday when a bill collector called on Nell and she brought a big roll of bills out of her purse. About half the town was in the street when Pete and his fellow-convict, Frank Tindol, arrived, but they all retired gracefully feeling that Pete and his wife would rather be alone...
...result of the uproar caused by Hornsby's ousting last week was an announcement in Chicago by baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis that he would start an immediate investigation of betting on horse races by baseballers in general. Said Tsar Landis: "I'll have to roll up my sleeves and go to work...
...University of Maryland, of which St. John's was a part from 1907 to 1920, tart Tax payer Henry Louis Mencken thought the most impressive fact about St. John's was that it "receives $67,000 a year from the State, and every student on its roll costs the taxpayer...
Died. Patrick Joseph ("Pat") Haltigan, 74, longtime reading clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Washington. Noted for his sonorous voice, Clerk Haltigan became famed during the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York. For the 17 days of the Smith-McAdoo deadlock he boomed out the roll call, beginning with Alabama's "24 votes for Underwood...