Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill and Alben don't know what they are talking about," snorted the Vice President. "Tell you what, Nate. I'll bet you $100 we don't adjourn by May 10, another hundred we don't adjourn by May 20, another on June 1, another on June 10. And just to give you $100, I'll bet on June...
...last week, Otha Wearin called the press to tell them the Administration was for him. Prove it, said the press. Ask anybody-ask Harry Hopkins, said Mr. Wearin. To Mr. Hopkins went the press, but he would say nothing. Then Mr. Hopkins changed his mind. Washington newshawks were fairly well satisfied that he had been spoken to by adroit, finagling Tommy Corcoran of the President's political staff. His pressagent called in able Correspondent Richard L. Wilson of the potent Des Moines Register and Tribune. Wilson wrote out what Mr. Hopkins said to him and handed it back...
Because they know how long it takes for uranium to "die," scientists can tell how old a deposit is from the proportion of live uranium and inactive uranium lead found side by side within it. Mineral deposits have been dated back nearly two billion years by means of the uranium-lead timepiece...
...June 1 for the start of anti-trust action against Aluminum Co., June 9 against Ethyl Gasoline Corp., and announced a new publicity policy in connection with anti-trust investigation. Businessmen have wished Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings and his department would tell them in advance what they were allowed to do under the antitrust laws. Mr. Cummings last week said that henceforth he would issue frequent statements covering: 1) conditions in an industry which he thinks are in restraint of trade; 2) economic results he hopes to get from an anti-trust proceeding; 3) reason he chose a particular...
...name for the U. S. is a socio-economic "Sargasso Sea." But if Author Adamic considers himself afloat in a socio-economic chaos, he also claims to have a navigation chart that explains it. How he discovered this chart is a long story, requiring 44 pages to tell. The story, told in Dynamite and here expanded, is that of the McNamara case and the Syndicalist dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in 1910. For Adamic, who heard the story from an old Socialist in 1928, violence "à la McNamara" is the chart that explains the conflict between Capital & Labor...