Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator for the first time. When Senate President Justo Luis del Pozo resigned in a huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again. One day when his 62-year-old uncle José Hourruitinier waylaid him in the Capitol to ask about getting his daughter restored to a government stenographic job, irascible Arturo Illas savagely caned the old man's head...
...sulking Congress had already had a warning of his temper. Aboard his special train as it rolled up from the South day before, he had volunteered to newshawks the information that he was determined to press afresh the aims outlined in his Madison Square Garden speech last October. In that speech, angriest of his campaign, he had said that in his Second Administration he hoped that "the forces of selfishness and lust for power'' would "meet their master...
...that though the President might still succeed in ramming his Plan through intact, in doing so he would "win the battle and lose the war" by splitting his Party beyond repair. Already it was plain that resentment against the Court Plan had put Congress into a negative, do-nothing temper...
...proposals was chiefly that the 15% cut looked bigger but was not mandatory and might end up as no saving at all, depending on the President. This was a tempting proposition. Congressmen could take credit for promoting Economy, the President all blame for sinking it. Such was the temper of Congress, however, that Senators Robinson, Byrnes, McKellar and other, less regular, supporters of the Administration came out strongly against it, declaring that they preferred a certain 10% cut (about $350,000,000 net after fixed charges) in the hand, to a possible...
...matadors those countries have always been mere provinces. In Spain, the land where bulls are much more than bulls and matadors a little more than men, 1937 promised to be the worst season in history. Gripped by the passion of civil war, Spain had little time or temper for its national "sport." But to many an aficionado, the great days of bullfighting had already gone over the horizon with Joselito and Belmonte, long before the civil war closed most of the bull rings. To observers with long memories and high standards, bullfighting had become decadent: its matadors were virtuosos...