Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last the clubmates decided that this state of things was unbearable. They got every member to write something on a slip of paper, numbered the slips, sent them, with the letters, to a handwriting expert in Cleveland. He picked out the slip of Mrs. Zenobia Krapp, small, tidy wife of a dairy farmer and onetime president of Sorosis. So did experts in Chicago and New York. Quietly, to spare her feelings, the members called a meeting, suspended Mrs. Krapp from Sorosis...
...already passed to the two vice presidents, Paul Gray Hoffman, an able salesmanager who first made a fortune for himself as a distributor in California, and Harold S. Vance, in charge of production. With Ashton Bean of White, they formed a triumvirate of receivers who never let their organization slip an inch...
When ex-Socialist Sinclair and his EPIC began to slip, the Roosevelt machine started to back away from what threatened to be a bad defeat. The President made a great White House show of keeping his hands off California. Boss Farley, red as a beet with embarrassment, had nothing to say publicly. His anonymous explanation: the letter was a form letter sent out from Democratic National headquarters; an underling, unauthorized, had filled in the blanks with Mr. Sinclair's name; the realistic signature and personal postscript were the work of a rubber stamp...
Minnesota. The Republicans were hoping to slip to victory while an argument went on between the Farmer-Laborites headed by Senator Shipstead and Governor Olson and the Democrats as to who had support of the New Deal. Emil Hurja, Boss Farley's right-hand man, last week visited Minnesota and announced that the Administration was solidly behind the Democratic ticket-Einar Hoidale for Senator, John Regan for Governor. Hardly had Mr. Hurja got back to Washington, however, before President Roosevelt, who had dealt more than kindly with Messrs. Shipstead and Olson, announced that he was not taking sides...
...Francisco, Coach Slip Madigan, whose efforts have built "little" St. Mary's into one of the most formidable football teams on the West Coast, coolly started his second string against Nevada. Nevada made a touchdown. Sent in to save the game, St. Mary's first string made the score 7-to-6 at halftime. In the last few minutes of play, Nevada's centre Tom Cashill won the game with a drop-kicked field goal...