Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol, he promptly sponsored a 132-word resolution simply "impounding" 15% of all appropriations for fiscal 1938 and providing that "no amount so impounded and set aside shall be available for obligation unless and until released and restored in whole or in part by the President." Speaker Bankhead promptly spoke up for the proposal, said that the President favored the idea...
...support. His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes inveighed against "these disgraceful and pernicious performances," and the Jews and Protestants agreed. President Thomas J. Phillips of the Burlesque Artists Association of the U. S. lost no time in sounding off in defense of the industry. "The first girl I ever spoke to in a theatre was a burlesque chorus girl," declared he, "and I married her and I'm still married to her. I resent the inferences that have been cast upon the people of burlesque. . . . Just remember, Dillinger was shot coming out of a moving picture theatre-not a burlesque...
...spoke Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution to predict that droughts on earth will cease with 1939's storms on the sun. Said he: "A double solar cycle of 46 years appears to be particularly important in precipitation. We seem justified in expecting a severe recurrence of droughts following the year...
...last House dinner which the Class of 1937 can attend, last night, George H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Ronald M. Ferry '12, House Master, spoke, and Maurice Sapienza '37, Class Poet, recited his poem on the occasion...
Arguing that the Neutrality Act passed by Congress last Friday is not sufficient to keep the United States out of a possible world conflict, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, spoke on "American Neutrality" last night over station WAAB, in the series of Wednesday evening broadcasts sponsored by the Harvard "Guardian", undergraduate magazine of the social sciences...