Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasted seven years there in a town called Greenville. Unless the honors go to backwoods sections of Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia I know of no more provincial and prejudice-ridden section anywhere...
Barred out by a canvas screen were some 100 correspondents and photographers as the President and some 60 Governors, Senators and drought experts sat down to a fried-chicken lunch at seven round tables in Governor Herring's big reception room. But bursts of loud laughter and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, popping out with a round-by-round account, kept the newshawks informed. Afterwards various official onlookers were glad to furnish details of the momentous meeting. At the President's table sat Federal District Judge Charles A. Dewey, four Democratic Governors and one Farmer-Laborite Governor (Iowa, Nebraska...
...only 16 types, which the Republicans had multiplied by applying them individually at each step in the process of making and selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income, on capital stock and on excess profits. These three, the only ones which Alf Landon...
...conserves its resources, it can produce enough to provide everybody with a decent standard of living. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has moved a little distance forward. . . ." First for the late arch-Democratic New York World, since then for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, Author Lindley covered Franklin Roosevelt for seven years, became one of the President's favorite White House correspondents. In Half Way With Roosevelt he presents a cool, critical but sympathetic history of the New Deal which is more likely to steady waverers than to make converts...
...total handicap of 21 goals or better. In the whole world, only that minute corner of Long Island bounded on the north by the Sound, on the east by Jericho, on the south by Westbury and on the west by Port Washington has ever been able to furnish seven such teams at the same time...