Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Party, in convention assembled in Chicago last week, took an elephantine step Wetward. Definitely deserted was National Prohibition as the G. 0. P. has tacitly endorsed it for the last twelve years. How close to reality the party's new declaration would bring legal beer, wine & spirits remained a matter of opinion, dispute, political contest. The fact in hand was that the Chicago convention gave Wets the substance of a change, Drys the shadow of kind words. The party had pulled on rubber boots to pussyfoot its way through the campaign. Whether this was possible or impossible only...
...firm and friendly contact with the silent powers of his party, Mr. Smith heard strong talk against a Roosevelt nomination. Men like Bernard Mannes Baruch did not think the Governor, if nominated, could win. Men like Mrfc Baruch looked appealingly toward Mr. Smith. Somebody had to step in, said they, if Roosevelt was to be headed off. Why not the Brown Derby again? Mr. Smith wondered why not. What if he had said he would not seek office? His friends wanted him. He had taken a bad beating in 1928 when times were good. By rights, he could tell himself...
...Author Gilbert Patten, he decided to emulate Hero Merriwell also. He got a scholarship at Denver University. While he was there, Jack Dempsey came to town. They boxed an exhibition match. Eagan gave Demp sey a hard punch on the jaw. "He [Dempsey] hummed the tune 'Everybody Two-Step,' keeping time with his whole body. . . . Then something fell on my head! It felt like a rafter from the roof. . . ." In the War, Eddie Eagan blacked both eyes of a top-sergeant named Boyle in his San Francisco training camp. He went abroad after the Armistice, fought in Franco...
...only he can skim, Premier Venizelos spoke of "improved service" to be expected under the French management. Germany, who once dreamed of owning a Berlin-to-Bagdad railway, angrily accused France last week of scheming to buy control of railways dominating the Balkans, called the Greek deal a step toward realizing this French ambition...
...Have Resigned." Meanwhile Chilean newspapers began complaining bitterly that Don Carlos Davila had taken no step against "Cosach," the $375,000,000 Chilean nitrate monopoly created by Manhattan's Guggenheims. Because Don Carlos when Ambassador had assisted in the negotiations creating "Cosach" and had pooh-poohed Chilean fears of "Yankee Imperialism," his lack of ruthlessness toward "Cosach" began to seem suspicious to some Chileans. Was the Stalinism of Don Carlos genuine, they wondered, or was he dragging a Red herring through the streets of Santiago, prating of "progressive Socialism" in order to head off a real Socialist revolt...