Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom I love and respect. But I am one Democrat who is going to vote against this inflation amendment. I may have regret but shall never make apologies for acting upon my own convictions and conscience." But no speech by Senator Glass or anyone else could stop the onward sweep of the President's inflation measure through the Senate. When Senator Arthur Robinson, Indiana Republican, tried to tag on a provision for paying off the Bonus with "greenback" currency, Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas Democrat, thundered. "I am authorized to say for the President that he is unqualifiedly against...
...competent student is in the nature of a partial compensation; possibly the social Benents of a normal college life have been overestimated; but President Scott should be neither surprised nor shocked if his prodigies, a few years hence, are tempted to turn on him with holy anger and sweep his precious incubator to destruction...
...time advantage of 5 minutes and 35 second. He was thrown, however, in the consolation bouts by Phillips, of Franklin and Marshall, in 4 minutes and 56 seconds, and thus was automatically awarded third place. It is interesting to note that the middle west again made a clean sweep of all the eight individual mat titles...
Criticism of H. R. 1491 was leveled at the fact that its principal benefits were limited to Federal Reserve member banks, thus excluding state banks which never joined the system. Chief critic was Louisiana's loud Long who offered an amendment whereby the President could sweep every bank in the land under the shelter of the Federal Reserve. Senator Glass whose antipathy toward Senator Long is so great that two days later he angrily tried to punch his nose, bitterly flayed the Long proposal. Ensuing wrangle...
...Hollywood, where studios were only slightly damaged, Maurice Chevalier was recording a love song beside a pool of swans. He & swans instantly stopped work. Marlene Dietrich was autographing a photograph for a friend. The pen made a wild sweep. Miss Dietrich dated the picture to commemorate the occasion. Carole Lombard was flung from a fitting stand in the wardrobe room...