Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John L. Lewis, an Oklahoma City dentist, is running for Congress. Patrick Henry, a Rush Springs cowboy, and Joe Miller, an Elk City farmer, are running for State Auditor. Others: Joe E. Brown, school superintendent in Dustin, for Secretary of State; Robert Burns, Oklahoma City lawyer, for Lieutenant Governor; Brigham Young, Oklahoma City engineer, and Wilbur Wright, Muskogee painter, for Congress; Daniel Boone, McAlester barber, and Huey Long, Oklahoma City businessman, for clerk of the Supreme Court...
...bill which can be guaranteed to rush through House and Senate like a flogged sailor running the gamut is the biennial highway bill, authorizing the expenditure of millions of dollars for U. S. roads. Practically untouched by human hands, the bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller...
Harkness made the first score of the game when he crossed the line following a well-executed dribbling rush by the forwards. Harvard's other points were made by Osgood on a penalty kick...
...WAGENEN Rush...
...pump-priming program that Congress has passed on is a law allowing RFC to use $1,500,000,000 for loans of almost any sort. Last week, therefore, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones took to the air to invite businessmen to "come and get it." This they did with a rush: in Manhattan, for example, the Hotel New Yorker politely but firmly asked a bureau of the Smaller Business Association of New York to leave after 600 would-be borrowers had stormed it one morning in search of RFC loan application blanks. Nonetheless, Jesse Jones and Franklin Roosevelt were apparently...