Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the Senate, Lindsay Warren's good friend Jimmy Byrnes of Spartanburg, S. C. took charge of the bill. "I'd rather have Jimmy Byrnes on my side than any other ten Senators," said Lindsay Warren, and the tribute was well earned. For two days a parliamentary battle was fought over the bill. At one point Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana succeeded in amending it to require both Houses' approval of every reorganization move by the President, by vote of 45-to-44. But after two days' smart maneuvering, Jimmy Byrnes got the amendment...
...recover. Jimmy ran the smithy, by 21 was acting for his father as election district captain. Twice he was arrested for street fighting, once for assaulting a girl whom he took to a hotel and afterwards refused to marry-wild oats for a young man on the upper west side. Tammany took care of its own; he wasn't sent to jail...
Jimmy Hines always tried to take good care of his family. They were devoted to him and he to them. They lived in various upper west side apartments and finally in 1930 Mrs. Hines bought a cottage at Long Beach, L. I., financed with a mortgage taken by a friend of Hines...
...under a virtual threat of invasion, gave the Reich almost all the oil, wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...
...rabbit's foot. He hung it fob-like from his watch pocket, remarking: "I'll need two of these." One was enough. In the first frame Bowler McGeorge found the groove with a wide Dutch hook, curving into the 1-3 pocket from the extreme right side of the alley. The pins scattered like cats off an alley fence. Then, ten more times without a miss, Bowler McGeorge's pet two-finger ball socked sweetly into the 1-3. Intent on remembering the groove, Bowler McGeorge had not been watching the score. Like most bowlers...