Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Speaker Garner, they reported, was ready to drop his candidacy for first place on the ticket, provided he was given second place. Under the influence of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, flattered with the notion of making a President, Mr. McAdoo was ready to swing Texas and California to Roosevelt and thus bury the hatchet?in Al Smith's back. At this news Mr. Howe's wrinkled face wrinkled even more. Reaching for the telephone, he called Governor Roosevelt in Albany to confirm the deal. The Governor would be delighted to have Speaker Garner...
...people waited to greet Nominee Roosevelt. James Roosevelt, 23, Franklin Jr., 17. Mrs. Curtis Dall, 23, all of whom had witnessed the convention, fought their way to their father's side. In the crush his glasses were knocked from his nose. Mayor Cermak accompanied him on a swift swing through the city to the Stadium. As Nominee Roosevelt sighted the buildings for next year's World Fair he promised Mayor Cermak to officiate as President of the U. S. at the opening ceremony...
...Republican and Democratic Clubs expect to do some campaign speaking this summer, probably in neighboring districts, thereby gaining considerable practical experience for their gatherings here during the following academic year. Each organization will keep in touch with its members during the summer in order to be able to swing into action more easily at the beginning of college...
...invention, intended to empty a distressed plane whether or not the passengers have the nerve and wit to jump in orderly fashion, is the work of one Harry P. Trusty. Last week he kept details secret, said only that a "series of drums" furnishes power to swing the seats out, that a twelve-passenger cabin may be evacuated in five seconds...
...that he is "almost happy." At other times he writes: "Habit of work is growing on me. I could get into the way of going to my desk as a man goes to whiskey, or rather to chloral." The struggle within the man-artist was in full swing. Some 600,000 more words of journal remain to be published to show the world how that struggle went...