Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard CRIMSON's poll of student sentiment on the Prohibition question in 14 leading universities, the Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
...Department of Labor to replace the present hit-or-miss system which keeps even the President of the U. S. ignorant as to the number of jobless. The other bill would establish a $150,000,000 public building program which the U. S. on short notice could swing into the breach of any future labor depression. Enactment of these measures was anticipated...
...Washington, Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, himself a citizen of Kansas City, loudly welcomed the vote in his home town as a straw in the western wind, presaging what he called a "swing against the Republican administration" which would reach a climax in the Congressional election of November...
Rumor kept the country acutely Capone-conscious. Upright citizens vigorously protested the attention the U. S. Press was giving this disreputable Under-worldling. The Press, however, continued to swing its spotlight around in search of Capone, contending that he was news- worthy, that it was in the public interest to find and keep...
...morning classes even the mud on his shoes is a tribute to progress and seems only vaguely out of place in venerable Sever. Perhaps tomorrow morning will dawn on the completed Plan, with rhododendrons sprouting, the dadoes displaying a natural wood finish, and a piano recital in full swing. When this tomorrow arrives and the finished product, treated with muriatic acid and delicately dressed in English Ivy, appears before the undergraduate, he may find it palatable after...