Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here again times have changed and with them the popular feeling toward President Harding. Candidate Frelinghuysen, aware of this shift, cannot put to the fore of his campaign his close personal relationship with the late President. Once the name of Harding would have worked magic for any Jersey candidate. Now Mr. Frelinghuysen knows it would be a liability, hopes voters will forget it. "Not that I have changed in my loyalty to Warren," he said last week, "but you know how women...
...Priests are automatically deprived of all civil rights?that is to say, they are not allowed to possess ration cards nor are they allotted to any housing space. They have to shift for themselves or?as usually happens?they are fed and housed by their congregations. It has to be said that the majority of priests are well cared for. At the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity they are at once shot, imprisoned or banished to Siberia...
Noticed by Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron of S. S. Berengaria upon approaching Manhattan last week: that the Gulf Stream was flowing nearer shore than he had ever seen it in 40 years of seafaring. Deduced by Capt. Rostron: this shift is responsible for Manhattan's milder win- ters, heavier fogs. Predicted by Capt. Rostron: if the Stream's shift continues many more years, a climate for Manhattan like Bermuda's, "palm trees on Long Island...
...with speculation if not suspicion. Was " General" Brown trying to get the Vice-Presidency away from him in 1932? Mr. Curtis wondered. Were " General" Brown's friends already working to this end? Mr. Curtis had heard as much. Did President Hoover, as a candidate for renomination, favor such a shift of running mates? Mr. Curtis wished he knew...
...form of censure. Particularly dissatisfied with this finding was New York's Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, a Judiciary committeeman who has been acting like a watch dog of the U.S. Judiciary (TIME, March 24). Congressman LaGuardia, passionately pleading for 100% judicial purity, was largely responsible for the committee's shift from mild censure to severe condemnation. Unanimously last week the Judiciary Committee recommended and unanimously the House voted this resolution upon Judge Moskowitz: ''Sufficient facts have not been presented to warrant . . . impeachment by the House. . . . The action of Judge Moskowitz, from the whole of the testimony, is not only...