Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas bloc possessed a degree of control out of all proportion to Texas' importance in the Union. Today Texans are chairmen of the House committees on Agriculture (Marvin Jones), Elections No. 1 (West), Judiciary (Sumners), Public Buildings & Grounds (Lanham), Rivers & Harbors (Mansfield), Un-American Activities (Dies), to say nothing of Sam Rayburn being Majority Floor Leader. In the Senate, Morris Sheppard (who outranks John Garner by a half-year in length of uninterrupted Congressional tenure) heads the committees on Commerce, Military Affairs and (to the New Deal's recent embarrassment) Campaign Expenditures. Senator Tom Connally has Public Buildings...
...make sense. As a political realist he knows that the odds are long against any particular man other than a President in office winning the Presidential nomination. But if his rebellion should serve as a lightning rod to draw the lightning his way, who is he to say it nay? Or to object if his becoming a candidate consolidates a group to nominate another who represents Garner's ideas of what the Democratic nominee should be? Jim Farley, who controls most of the national Democratic machinery, can be seen playing along with old Mr. Garner (or old Mr. Hull...
What that declaration was he would not say just then. But significant was a German Foreign Office statement, issued but immediately withdrawn pending further developments: "The return of Czecho-Slovakia to the German Reich would signify the restoration of ancient historical conditions. . . . An unambiguous situation in Czecho-Slovakia is indispensable to the security of Germany. . . ." Significant, too, were the remarks of a British Government "spokesman" who observed that while the four Munich powers had agreed to guarantee mutilated CzechoSlovakia's external borders, her internal divisions were no concern of Britain's. That did about all that was needed...
...right when you say it is bad taste or no taste at all to like some thing herdwise, witness the recent and almost leprous enthusiasm for the dead van Gogh ... I wish you perfect joy in your illustrious solitudes...
Holiest object in a synagogue is its Torah (scroll of the Jewish Law). The Torah, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament, is God's covenant with Moses and his people. The countless minute provisions of the Law, and the later commentaries which Jews say "put fences" around it, gave Jewry a complete guide to religious, social, physical behavior. Thus the Torah, in its ark or shrine, is the focal point in the most solemn synagogue services...