Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill before the House last week was designed to give U. S. industries immunity under the anti-trust laws in collective buying of crude rubber, potash, sisal "or other raw materials or products of nature." The opposition which sprang up declared that such a measure would injure the U. S. consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that...
Virginia's hard-working little Carter Glass, now in the Senate, was one of the late Mr. Lane's closest friends and served with him in the Wilson Cabinet. Now, at Senator Robinson's remark, Senator Glass sprang up, storming: "Does the Senator mean to suggest that Franklin K. Lane ever accepted a bribe from Mr. Doheny? If he does then I denounce him here upon this floor as a slanderer...
...what was all this about? What high crime or mighty treason loomed? A man from Mars would have laughed to learn that the whole impressive pother sprang from a few oaths and reprimands uttered by peppery Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard (TIME, March...
...Sweeney, a mean devil, had handcuffed the gorgeous fellow and was bossing him around at the point of a gun. Just as we were prepared to go home with the Sergeant's death-words resonant in our ears there was an odd occurrence. From two soiled-clothes baskets there sprang, unexpectedly, an equal number of Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen, who took the situation well in hand...
Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...