Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an array of microphones before him on his desk, he spoke to the Young Democrats of America. When he finished he called the Capitol again. The news of adjournment was not so good. It got worse. In the Senate the matter of cotton loans was the slip that had come between...
...penal code will have a 'danger zone.' Whoever moves in this sphere will do so at his own risk. . . . Wrong may exist, accordingly, in the Germany of the future, even where there is no law providing a punishment. No one must be lucky enough to slip through the meshes...
Nowhere amid this welter of revenue-raising did there appear in writing the promise which let the tax bill slip so easily through the Senate. That promise was an Administration bargain with Senate Bonuseers. Explaining that his sole purpose was to put Majority Leader Robinson on record, Oklahoma's Thomas last week moved to amend the tax bill with what was virtually the greenback Bonus bill. Senator Robinson at once gave his solemn word that the Bonus would get prompt consideration in a separate bill early next session. With that promise in their pockets. Bonuseers could count...
...herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with it and be killed. Clay was about 16, a resourceful boy with a "mean-spoken sassiness that kept people from being pleasant to him even when they wanted to." He risked his neck to get the pistol...
...Depression a gold boom hit the mining States. It was followed by a silver boom which hit its proper pace this spring after Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau squeezed silver prices to a high of 81? per oz. (Depression low: 25?). Secretary Morgenthau has currently let the price slip to 68? but by law he must continue buying until either his silver stocks amount to 25% of his gold stocks or the price goes to $1.29 per oz., the more likely alternative...