Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH IN THE HOUSE-Anfhony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Two members of the British Cabinet are poisoned under the eyes of the House of Commons while introducing a bill for India. Absorbing, well written and a little stiff in its British joints...
...back-yard Councilman Michael A. Sullivan of Ward 9, Harvard's best friend and severest critic, faces a stiff battle for the Democratic nomination which is equivalent to election...
Forty other Senators sat in the chamber, grimly set on stiff-arming everything that might slow up adjournment. And between his afternoon naps in the cloakroom they had the support of Vice President Garner, who had a ticket to Texas in his wallet...
...split among minor parties that not one of them can command a sure majority. Last week Dr. D. J. de Geer, leader of the Christian Historical Party, smaller but a shade less conservative than the Anti-Revolutionaries, formed a new Cabinet. Now that they are rid of stiff-necked Dr. Colijn, the Socialists and Catholics may well be ready to support a compromise policy...
Hearing that Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley, GOP Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Liberty Leaguer Jouett Shouse, Stiff-necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...