Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago The Nation printed an article by Raymond Gram Swing, denouncing Judge Wilson's actions in this petty case, rehashing the practical politics behind his appointment. Last week the Department of the Interior gave out The Nation article as an official press release, an hour later sent messenger boys around trying to retrieve it. Washington correspondents were told it had all been a mistake. But the fat was on the fire, because not only Judge Wilson but Messrs. Harrison, Cummings and Farley were denounced in the article. Stuart Godwin, the Interior's pressagent, had a toothache...
Poorest of Europe's royalty, Little Tsar Boris sat in his yellow plaster palace at Sofia and waited. Last week came his chance. Scenting a swing in his favor he had refused fortnight ago to dismiss a number of officers as demanded by War Minister General Zlateff, presumably at the suggestion of the Veltcheff-Gueorguieff dictatorship. General Zlateff did a little scouting on his own, then with a shrill whistle of surprise swung to his sovereign's side. It was a wise move. Last week Little Tsar Boris was strong enough to dismiss the entire dictatorship and make...
...edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk of pelvis acts like a claw to hold the hip bone within its socket. The new grip is just tight enough to let the leg swing...
...Expenditure of $880,000,000 of unexpended funds for direct relief until the new works program is in full swing...
...rich. In the U. S., decades ago, Methodists began preaching Prohibition, that great reform which was to save people from the brewers and saloonkeepers. Methodists also espoused labor's causes - collective bargaining, shorter hours, unemployment insurance- when to do so seemed downright radical. Today in the perceptible leftward swing of U. S. religion, Methodism as a whole has gone farther than any other single sect. Some recent examples...