Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elevation to the No. 2 position in the Democratic House organization, Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania would have been the man. Last month Boss Guffey clinched last week's election of Tennessee's gawky, bush-browed Joseph Wellington Byrns to the Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker...
Defendants Burke, Topel and Maniscalco appealed their conviction. Last week the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court declared: "In the light of the testimony adduced we believe that the conclusion reached by the dissenting justice of the Court of Special Sessions was based upon a solid foundation and the judgment entered should be reversed, the information dismissed and the fine remitted...
...visited it were given ballots and asked to vote for their favorite among the 356 paintings exhibited. With a total of 1,920 votes, more than twice as many as its nearest competitor, the people's choice was Tropic Seas, by Frederick J. Waugh. Depicted in a solid, workmanlike way was a thoroughly banal study of green seas, white foam and brown rocks?a scene such as embellished the parlors of the country's leading hotels in the days when their elevators had ropes to start them...
Behind the blare of retail trade marched the solid indices of industry. Electric power output last week was 8% above the same week of 1933 and last fortnight touched a 200-week high. Steel production inched upward for the eighth consecutive week to 32.7% of capacity. That still meant losses for the industry but the price of scrap steel, a good key to steel's future, jumped to $13 per ton, up $3 from the autumn low. Building supply companies, aided by the Government's remodeling drive, reported sales up as much as 150%. American Telephone & Telegraph added...
...solid anti-new dealers, like myself, this little farce on the current situation in this great country of ours provided more than a pleasant evening of entertainment. That master card, Smiling Jack Benny, friend of all the little boys down whose throats Jell-o is forced each evening, is the real clown of the show, playing the part of the poor banker just out of Atlanta after a five year vacation there for his noble deeds in the great days of '29. With him as co-partner is a man who threatens to replace Victor Moore as the typification...