Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican Allen Treadway, who teased Townsenditcs in his district with half-promises, was pressed for his opinion of the Doughton scheme. "I have told you time and again that I didn...
...think our white father in Washington needs divine guidance. Won't you pray that our father in Washington will have his mind changed...
...gallons of fuel-enough, he hoped, for 32 to 40 hours. Smith had no permit from the Civil Aeronautics Authority, said he wanted to test the possibilities of light planes for long-distance flights. Said one of Smith's friends: "He is a level-headed kid and I think he'll make it." Forty hours later Irish airmen gave him up, turned out their field flood lights...
Most people think of Rochester, N. Y. as a rich, solid city where Kodaks are made and music, subsidized by Eastman millions, flourishes. Rochester is also a sick city whose thousands of immigrant, unskilled unemployed compound the effects of Depression II. Dependent on Relief is one in five of Rochester's 330,000 citizens...
Sandy Calder, son of Sculptor A. Stirling Calder, gave up painting when he found that "wire, or something to twist, or tear, or bend, is an easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet...