Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloom had the victory. Charles Kramer of Los Angeles popped up with an amendment to provide Sol Bloom not with another $150,000 but with $275,000, so that every Congressman could have 2,500 copies of Bloom on the Constitution to distribute free. A roll-call was demanded on the question and Sol Bloom fretted nervously while the "Nays" rolled up impressively. But so did the "Yeas." He got his money by a close shave...
...certainly it is the Manhattan morning field. In sophistication as well as numbers that public is a U. S. news publisher's greatest challenge. The young man from California who, 42 years ago, took up that challenge, was courageous as well as rich. He bargained the late John Roll McLean down from $360,000 to $180,000 for his wobbly Morning Journal and then proceeded to spend $7,500,000 combatting fiery Joseph Pulitzer's World on its own ground. He boldly bought away Pulitzer's ablest men, including Arthur Brisbane and Morrill Goddard, the genius...
...freezing people who never froze." Senator Borah chimed in with a warning that recent Supreme Court decisions give Congress virtually unlimited power to spend money for any purpose "and if the brakes are not put on here there is no place they can be put on." When the roll calls were taken, however, the Byrnes amendment was defeated 58 to 25, the Robinson amendment 49 to 34, but among those 34 were 22 Democrats (not counting three who were paired for it). And the names of Harrison, Glass, Byrnes, Pittman, Bankhead, Bailey, Connally, Clark, Russell, Democratic stalwarts all, were every...
...Road Back (Universal). The night of November 10, 1918, a group of bedraggled German soldiers talk over the chance of an early peace. Says one scoffer: "Aw, the War's never going to end. It'll go on forever." They roll over to sleep in their dugout like rats in a rain-soaked furrow...
...Pepper prices are currently very low (6? per lb.) because last year's crop was the largest in history (87,000 tons were shipped) and there is now a glut of pepper on the market. But this is the fifth year since new plantings matured and the down-roll of the pepper cycle is due soon, meaning smaller crops and, agreed pepper experts last week, much higher prices...