Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking & Currency Committee arose to explain to his bewildered colleagues how H. R. 1491 gave dictatorial banking power to the President, authorized impounding of all gold, and provided for a new currency issue...
...years of detailed and painstaking investigation into the affairs of the Bank of the United States in New York, the court has found the president, Bernard Marcus, and the vice-president, Saul Singer, guilty of "willful misapplication of corporate funds." They have been sentenced to a term in Sing-Sing of from three to six years. The evidence given in this inquiry and others of the recent past indicates that the crime is common, and can be met not by more stringent laws, but by more vigorous prosecution of the present statutes...
...case. With Wartime cheeriness, first-nighters rewarded an optimistic but routine number called "It's Great to Be Alive," sung by dark little Gracie Barrie, with a storm of applause. When the tall and attractive chorus chanted "Roosevelt Is President" in the Of Thee I Sing manner, there was a ringing ovation...
Unlike most young U. S. singers engaged lately by the Metropolitan, Tenor Crooks had made his name beforehand. At 11 he was a wonder boy soprano, commuting from his home in Trenton to sing at All Angels' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. At 12 he sang with Ernestine Schumann-Heink in a huge Ocean Grove (N. J.) festival, maintained perfect poise until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from...
...first time the Club will sing at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham, on Monday, March 6, while on Tuesday, March 14, it will sing with the Plymouth Men's Glee Club...