Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curley and Walsh swept Massachusetts yesterday as the nation followed Roosevelt to give the New Deal a new lease on life with at least seven seats gained in the Senate by the Democrats...
Breaking up into seven study groups, the conferences will consider causes of of war, danger spots in Europe and Asia, practical action and propaganda against war, students and workers and war, militarism and armaments, who profits from war, and the peace policy of the Soviet Union. These groups will be led by prominent students and members of the faculty...
Mile Printemps, making her first U. S. appearance since 1926 in the first English-speaking part she ever attempted, gives Mr. Coward's little tale her best. She trills four of the seven songs, trips lightly up & down the stage in flat heels and Lanvin costumes. Unlike Pierre Fresnay. who holds the record for the greatest number of performances in Musset and for speaking better English than any other French actor, Mile Printemps does not always articulate the graceful Coward lyrics sufficiently to make them intelligible. But she and M. Fresnay provide an agreeable, if not an eventful, evening...
...story building in Kilgore in the heart of the East Texas Field, where hot oil is now flowing at the rate of at least 100,000 bbl. per day, seven men hunched around a long council table-three members of the new Federal Tenders Board, three members of the State Tenders Board and Col. Ernest O. Thompson, dominant member of the Texas Railroad Commission which is supposed to regulate the oil business of Texas. By order of Oil Administrator Ickes not a drop of oil could be accepted for interstate shipment without a tender certifying its legality...
...status of any lot of oil actually rested on a bulldogged, stone-steady gentleman named Captain E. N. Stanley. He was the Railroad Commission's chief enforcement officer. After an application was read, the Board would turn for advice to Captain Stanley, who passed about one in seven. Notorious hot-oil runners-and he knew them all-he cheerfully referred to as ''regular customers...