Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposal for the Government to assume control of the oil industry; 2) adoption against the President's wishes of an embargo on all imports threatening domestic recovery; 3) adoption of a three-man board to handle public works instead of a single administrator. Greatly perturbed by his runaway committee's actions, Chairman Harrison announced that he would carry these anti-Administration amendments to the Senate floor, there stage his fight in the President's behalf. President Roosevelt sent a letter to the committee asking it to restore the license clause as the only means to make...
...London Conference, Viscount Ishii, was momentarily due, to sit on President Roosevelt's famed black leather couch and talk as friends, face to face, about what the world needed. It even looked as though President Roosevelt, having melted Europe's frozen attitudes, was prepared to cool the runaway conflagration in Asia...
Because TIME arrives six weeks late it is of interest only because it is "curt, clear, complete" and accurate. For these virtues TIME is of value, also on constant test. Our latest test: TIME'S account of De Zeven Provincien, runaway Netherland India battleship, Feb. 20. We were satisfied. The account was TIMEly...
...hold the prisoner on $25,000 bail pending an appeal to a special session of the U. S. Circuit Court later this month. But it did send wave on wave of indignation rolling through Middleburg, across Virginia and over the entire South. George Crawford became more than a "runaway nigger," for in him the South saw symbolized its right to administer criminal justice in its own way. The South remembers the fugitive slave law whereby a Negro might murder in the South and find asylum in the North. Below the Potomac there was wild talk of a sudden increase...
...filled Ramapo Mountains for some 15 years. Dwellers on lonely farms or town outskirts have shivered at the sound of their baying in the night. Hunters have found their trail in the hair & bones of many a deer and rabbit. In their veins runs the blood of abandoned or runaway pets-German shepherd, Airedale, collie, hound. Members of one pack are apparently crossed chow and hound, look like big red foxes...