Word: tack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before closing its long-drawn hearing last week, Senator Borah's subcommittee took a sudden and surprising tack. It wanted to know what the whole country has wanted to know since last summer? the facts surrounding the "deal" which U. S. Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson made with Capone. How much or how little did Judge Wilkerson know about the understanding before it was brought out in court...
Only five of the 25 constitutional amendments proposed by Congress have failed of State ratification.* Unless three-fourths of the State Legislatures ratify this latest proposal within seven years, it will lapse, becoming null and void. Virginia's hasty ratification started a race among the States to tack the "Lame Duck'' Amendment to the Constitution after the one providing for woman suffrage. Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George...
Next, however, you went off on a different tack, advocating full discussion and impartial judgement. You rightly enough recognize that there are two sides to every dispute and that the chances are none of us knows enough to pass judgement on the merits of either the Chinese or the Japanese case. This is all well and good, and it represents one phase of the problem, but from the point of view of the rest of the world it is a minor phase. The important thing which you seem to have missed entirely is not the dispute itself but the methods...
...same hospital by the same procedure surgeons removed a tack from a lung of Fred Brill...
...inde pendence. And Hoover. Not until Henry Lewis Stimson went to Manila in 1927 was much done to prepare the Philippines for independence. Governor General Leonard Wood ruled with a mailed fist, antagonized the natives, scoffed the idea of ever letting the islands go. Governor Stimson took a different tack, emphasized the necessity of economic growth before there could be any talk of freedom. Governor Davis has largely followed the Stimson policy, with good results. Local government is virtually all in the hands of the natives, with the U. S. holding a check on the purse strings through the Governor...