Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earliest and eagerest queries received by Washington press associations one evening last week concerning results of Mississippi's and South Carolina's Dem-ocratic primaries (tantamount to elections) came from the White House. The news the White House got was the best send-off President Roosevelt could have had as he started West on his drought-inspection trip that night. By thwacking majorities Mississippi and South Carolina had returned two of the President's most loyal and useful Senators, for each of whom his attachment to the President had been the prime campaign issue...
...victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews had a neat majority of 4,500. Since nomination is tantamount to election, he became the first man to win a place in the U. S. Senate in a campaign where he depended mainly on the California doctor's $200-per-month pension plan for oldsters as an issue...
Regarding Michelson's observation as tantamount to an accusation that he and his colleagues had been bribed by Republican money, Mr. Lawrence needed only the additional stimulus of the President's off-the-road remarks to the visiting editors to unlimber his guns in retaliation. Last week in 146 newspapers Pundit Lawrence indignantly declared...
...bore her baby Aug. 17. Next night the baby was taken away to be "adopted." Weeks later, said Anna, she had learned through an entirely different case the identity of the woman who had her child. She now wanted him back. In his recommendation to the Court of Appeals, tantamount to final decision, Commissioner Limbaugh tenderly took note: "The indescribable but eloquent expression of motherly instinct and affection revealed by Anna Ware when she first saw the baby in court was significant...
...speech by His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs caused a responsible correspondent at Addis Ababa to cable: "The Ethiopians feel that Sir Samuel Hoare's rejection of the idea of military sanctions was tantamount to a license to Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy to go ahead with the war without effective interference from the rest of the world...