Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal of Editor Ross in sudden irascibility, at Cornell where both were members of Book & Bowl, beer-drinking literary society...
Following his sudden blast last fortnight when he called NLRB a "kangaroo court" which should be scrapped before it made "economic hash of our national welfare," Senator Gerald P. Nye last week resumed fire on the floor of the Senate, attacking the Board for failure to hold an election in Philadelphia's strike-wrecked Apex Hosiery Co. (TIME, July 5). The North Dakota Senator trumpeted: "If a great Government is going to tolerate administration by a board or a bureau which in turn is going to tolerate practices of that kind, the hour is not far off when Americans...
There is a tide in the affairs of men, and last week Franklin Roosevelt might well have thought it had set against him. Senator Robinson's sudden death was followed by the threat that his whole Court Plan might fail (see p. 10). A new fight over the majority leadership of the Senate impended, a fight in which it was likewise touch & go whether the President could have his way (see p. 12). On top of these things, the Lehman letter was a serious blow...
About 1,500,000 more cotton spindles were at work in the U. S. last month than in June 1936. No sudden rise, this activity was the latest stage in a cotton textile comeback slowly achieved in the face of competition from synthetics and from abroad. By the end of the month, according to the U. S. Census Bureau's report last week, U. S. cotton textile mills had absorbed 7,361,700 bales of the South's great cash crop, thereby establishing in eleven months an all-time record for domestic consumption during the twelve-month cotton...
...year that "Susan Goodyear" was the wife of the Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, successor to Dean Inge of London's St. Paul's Cathedral and former Dean of Exeter Cathedral, Cathedral Close, a first novel which up to then had won only critics' praise, leaped suddenly into the best-seller class. The reason for this sudden popularity was a curiosity to find out how much truth lay behind the scandal which forms the theme of the story, and if the scandal occurred at Exeter. U. S. readers, while immune to this news interest, will still rate...