Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senate, Supreme Court and House remained oblivious to all this. After 20 minutes the Senate, having sworn its new members and appointed a committee to notify the President it was in session, adjourned. In the House, however, a rush of proposed legislation kept many a member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations...
Secretary of War Davis was fascinated by what he heard of the great deserts in New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. In 1853, stagecoach lines or the Pony Express had not yet followed the covered wagons of the Gold Rush. There were Indians in the desert lands, Indians whom the War Department must subdue. Secretary of War Davis took thought and sent some Army commissioners to Egypt. Object: to buy dromedaries...
...while chatting with a Norwegian lady one unwittingly refers to "the time when Norway was a part of Sweden," the chances are four out of five that hot tears of indignation will rush to her light blue eyes...
Another musical show is in town but that should not cause any great rush to the box office as "The Street Singer" is the typical type of entertainment offered to the not so discriminating audiences in the middle west. To be sure the piece improves as time goes on: the second act being far superior, due possibly to the fact that one becomes accustomed to the lack of good music and absence of a good comic character, the musical comedy...
...paramount banks and bond houses of the World, $300,000,000 worth of so-called "Young Plan Bonds" were offered June 1 last in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Belgium, Rome, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Zurich, Stockholm, at an average price of $90 per $100 bond, were oversubscribed everywhere with a rush which pushed the price up to $91.25 (TIME...