Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 on the prospect of next year's elections to stampede Congress over the strongest veto President Roosevelt might write...
Meanwhile the Japanese Cabinet, just before the Vanity Fair incident burst, tried last week to settle the recent months of quarrel about Emperor Hirohito's exact status by a solemn and fervent pronouncement. Excerpt...
...these evil rumors to ground in Washington. He talked to newshawks and others who had seen the President recently. He had an interview with the President at which the "whispering campaign" came up for discussion. Then Stanley High went on the air, broadcast to the U. S. the solemn news...
...executive assistant to his partner's father, Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands. Paul Yates's behavior in that capacity curdled Bob Allen's friendship into the wrath which exploded in the Senate corridor last week.** Their fisticuffs were a fitting prelude to a solemn Senate investigation of Governor Pearson's administration...
...still taking his setting-up exercises every morning, Connaught has been a holy terror all his life to every regiment he has honored by inspection. Unlike Nephew George V, whose object on such occasions is to have everything go off smoothly, Uncle Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught...