Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name of "One Who Believes in Honest Government," threatened to subpena Acting Editor Vance Armentrout if the name was not forthcoming. Above the Courier-Journal's letter column runs this legend : "The writer's name...
...been generally agreed that Reichs-Chancellor Hitler's manipulation of foreign opinion has lacked something of subtlety and fact; but it was thought that in domestic matters at any rate, the man possessed a moderate amount of political common sense. And now even this last tender illusion seems in a fair way of being roughly uprooted. Speaking at the inaugural of the Berlin automobile show, the Chancellor, to all intents and purposes, promised the German people that the nation would soon have as cheap cars as the inhabitants of the United States can boast, and as large a percentage...
...Committee draft, 390 Representatives voted "yea," seven lone Republicans cried "no." The bill was passed on to the Senate. When weeks or months hence it is returned to the House for concurrence, few Representatives will be able to recognize the bill they approved last week with such tender care...
...there was little jubilation in the Press last week. The President, vexed by the whole irksome business, had spanked the publishers on three tender spots, 1) He "requested" big newspapers in big cities to put reporters on a five day, 40 hr. week; 2) he "ordered" a new report on child labor (newsboys); 3) he laughed off the Freedom of Press clause as having "no more place [in the code] than would the recitation of the whole Constitution or the Ten Commandments. . . . The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is a freedom of expression and that will be scrupulously respected...
Catherine the Great (London Films) is more tender than The Private Life of Henry the VlII (Charles Laughton), more glittering than Queen Christina (Greta Garbo). But what makes this sumptuous pageant of antique Russia noteworthy is the presence in the title rôle of an able Viennese actress named Elizabeth Bergner...