Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal approval by the Overseers but on this occasion it is believed that appearances will be preserved by awaiting the approval. Another possibility is that a special meeting of the Overseers might be called, as was done a few years ago to fill vacancies in its membership. The present temper of the Board is believed to be opposed to a special meeting on the grounds that there is no need for haste and that such a meeting would not be consistent with the dignity of the body...
...correspondents to superlatives of praise. He had Congress eating out of his steady hand. In two weeks he put through nearly two years' worth of important legislation. His smiling facility charmed even rabid Republicans. In a dozen days 14,000 laudatory telegrams swamped the White House. Catching the temper of the times the national commander of the American Legion tried to swing its 10,709 posts behind the President the instant Congress authorized pension cuts...
...would go directly home to the Carlton Hotel for a few hours sleep. Not once during the seven-day ordeal did he drop his good-natured smile. Not once did his grey toupee slip askew in the excitement. Not once did he lose control over the deep-hidden temper which once sent him raging into the sanctum of the late Elbert Gary to pound indignant defiance upon the great steelmaster's desk...
Called into special session on four days notice, the 73rd Congress, young and Democratic, sat momentously in the Capitol last week. President Roosevelt had summoned it to meet the banking crisis-Emergency Item No. 1 of the New Deal. Not since War days had the Congressional temper been so grave, so unanimously bent on speedy action. The State of the Union was so serious that the most opinionated Senators and Representatives submerged their convictions in worried silence and took orders from the White House. Other Congresses had gabbled away opportunities to rescue the country but the 73rd, with a record...
...Joseph Taylor Robinson who has gamely forgotten his own unsuccessful run for the Vice-Presidency in 1928. For all his red-faced bellowing Leader Robinson is at heart a level-headed conservative who will do his utmost to keep the Roosevelt legislative program on the track. The same quick temper which once set him fighting on a Washington golf course is Leader Robinson's greatest handicap in uniting his followers...