Word: spadework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the spadework that has been put in by undergraduates to secure this privilege, it is hard to think of having it used as a duty. Rather the Freshmen who avail themselves of it will find themselves amply repaid by the good food, comfortable surroundings, and the general charm of House life that they will share. The trouble of looking up some older acquaintance to sign one's meal slip will be well balanced by the chance to make acquaintances among the upperclasses and to know the character of each House by something more than guesswork and hearsay...
...Hyde Park the next day he sprang another rabbit. Sitting on the stone porch of his mother's house he gave a press conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired first session ended last summer: crop control, antilynching, wages and hours legislation, reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, regional planning. The President promised his final decision on an extra session probably...
...regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists like Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis. The President presumably reworked their drafts-adding appropriate passages from Lost Horizon-as his train sped east with few visitors aboard...
...personal reasons also Paul van Zeeland is anxious to better relations with The Netherlands. Previous leader of the Oslo Group is elderly, conservative Hendrikus Colijn, Premier of The Netherlands. His was the idea of reviving the 1930 group. After much sly spadework it was on his invitation that members of the northern nations met quietly at The Hague on March 3. Premier Colijn has not the youth, the personality, perhaps even the ability of Paul van Zeeland. But he is an important figure. If Paul van Zeeland is quietly to replace him he is very anxious to keep...
...starry-eyed when he confessed that he had never heard of the classic 1,800-page report on railroad holding companies made in 1931 by ICCommissioner Walter Marshall William Splawn, nor of its highly reputed author. An expert on utility holding companies, deliberate, bespectacled Commissioner Splawn also did the spadework that resulted in the Federal Communications Commission investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph (TIME, April 16, 1934). On Mr. Young's admission of ignorance and on the news that Alleghany was marked for dissolution, Alleghany stock nose-dived from...