Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MEYNELL (Alice) Geres' Runaway and Other Essays...
...your excellency that Mayor Walker has answered for his affairs full and completely and I say to you that Sherwood's [the Mayor's runaway financial agent] absence is ten million times more valuable to the charge makers than Sherwood's presence could possibly be. But don't let anybody mistake my position. That the tenure of office of the Mayor of the greatest city in the world should depend upon his detective ability is to me more or less unthinkable, particularly when the committee with $750,000 behind it and the arm of the State of New York...
...denied modification of the packers' anti-trust Consent Decree; sustained Oklahoma's oil proration law; voided a Texas law designed to bar Negroes from Democratic primaries; upset reapportionment legislation in Missouri, Minnesota and New York; approved the jailing of Alphonse Capone and the fining of Harry M. Blackmer, oil runaway, for contempt of court (see p. 12); invalidated Oklahoma's law to limit ice dealers by "convenience & necessity" license; denied the Senate's right to oust George Otis Smith from the Federal Power Commission after sending his confirmed nomination back to the President...
...politically set against all serious economy, its leaders feared that the tattered omnibus bill would, in the end, produce savings of only $50,000,000, far short of the amount required to balance the Budget even with a realistic tax bill. Greatly provoked was Speaker Garner at the Democratic runaway from the recommendations of his economy committee. He vowed that roll call votes would later be taken on all important changes "to put the members' feet to the fire in the matter of economy...
Hunger. That runaway led to hard hungry years for a 12-year-old. Young Murray chopped wood, picked cotton, hired out as a farm hand, led a prodigal outdoor life. Deep within him was another kind of hunger-a hunger for learning which he has not fully satisfied to this day. He attended rural schools here and there, now and then, and finally got admitted to a freshwater college in Parker County, Texas, called Springtown Male & Female Institute. Here he discovered what to study, went back to his odd jobs, returned to the Institute later to take and pass...