Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loitering along the Nova Scotia coast, lying fog-bound in isolated harbors, seagoing Franklin Roosevelt last week provided the seven correspondents expensively trailing him in a chartered schooner with no more newsworthy facts than that he had clicked on a radio for Alf Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home...
...after Governor Landon pledged himself in his acceptance speech to purge relief of politics (see p. 9), acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams dismissed seven Oklahoma WPA officials for exerting political pressure on relief workers in the recent Democratic primary, in which anti-New Dealer Senator Thomas P. Gore met defeat (TIME, July 20). Administrator Williams then trumpeted: "I defy anyone to show me where anyone on relief has been politically coerced. . . . We have received instructions from the President to keep this thing out of politics and we're going...
...every year for seven years A hundred thousand men Gave sixty pence and sixty prayers We'd have our churches then...
...corporate form or in the Ringling partnership which preceded it. Nor was the integrity of its principal owner, John Ringling, at stake. So far as the Government could see, the alleged frauds had been perpetrated without the knowledge or consent of robustious old "Mr. John," the last of the seven Rungeling Brothers from Baraboo, Wis. whose name was changed by a typesetter and allowed to stand uncorrected. All six men indicted in Manhattan last week were agents-"Mr. John's" secretary and his lawyer, John M. Kelley, and four onetime Internal Revenue agents. All had had a hand...
...weather.* Distillers counted whiskey's maturity in summers because they thought that season gave whiskey its best bouquet. Last week this old-time cycle came back into the liquor business for the first time since Repeal. National Distillers, No. 1 U. S. whiskey producer, announced that seven of its nine distilleries had been shut down until October. With heated warehouses, National's decision had nothing to do with summer's effect on whiskey's flavor. Reason given was that National plants, after running continuously since Repeal, needed overhauling and replacements. Plain fact was that National, like...