Word: stew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he undertook to lead a Congress which Franklin Roosevelt left to stew in its own juice, John Garner has taken to rambling out of his room in the Senate office building to call on Senators young & old, to having likely new House men brought in to his "school of education" by mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner...
...Year's lull the Loyalist soldiers, better fed than the civilian population, got a half bottle of beer apiece, a few pieces of candy, a dinner of chick-pea soup, meat stew with potatoes, and coffee. The Rebels enjoyed two hot meals like this every day, plus a special coffee ration to hearten them through the freezing cold weather...
That Harvard's embarrassing union trouble, bubbling over with threats and accusations a month ago, was now quietly fermenting in the stew of the State Labor Relations Board appeared as only temporary relief in the six-months-old tension last night...
...many Leftist Spanish soldiers came half-famished through the crags of the Pyrenees, stumbling over crests white with eternal snow (see cut). They straggled down the valleys, handed their guns to French frontier guards, entered refugee camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout, only spring water and stew dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have advanced steadily north and eastward...
...businessman cold, when enunciated by U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Chicago last week before the annual American Finance Conference were greeted with thunderous applause. For the American Finance Conference is the trade association of independent automobile financing companies and currently it is in a tremendous stew over what it calls the ''monopolistic coercion" practiced by the four big financing companies owned or tied up with automobile companies...