Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none was so important as those that went on in the office of the Senate's president, John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner. As Vice President of the U. S., Mr. Garner regularly attends Cabinet meetings by special invitation of President Roosevelt. He attended a meeting last week and, though the walls of the Cabinet room are thoroughly soundproof, newsgatherers soon learned that there had been hot discussion, that Cactus Jack had taken an adamant position for economy...
...though to prove the old Texan's new power, Capitol Hill last week beheld an unusual spectacle. Soon after the hot Cabinet session, two Cabinet members called on the Senate's president in one day, hat in hand. One was Secretary Wallace of Agriculture, of whose acreage restrictions and proposed revival of processing taxes Mr. Garner disapproves. The other was Harry Hopkins, whose WPA performance will be mercilessly reviewed before the Senate confirms him as Secretary of Commerce...
...Check your mailing list and remove my name so I will not receive any more such trash and insults. You have the nerve to say 'white persons only' as though being white was a badge of honor...
...also Mussolini's official biographer and for many years his closest feminine confidante-though by no means the only one. Her influence waned when her old friend decided to pal around with Jew-tormenting Adolf Hitler, whom she detests. Now all her Government sinecures have been withdrawn, but last week she insisted to International News Service: "I have not been exiled. . . . Please make it clear...
...Pasadena's Rose Bowl, in an off-&-on drizzle, a powerful, versatile Southern California team which had given Notre Dame its only defeat of the season, tried desperately to gain the distinction of being the first eleven to cross the goal line of the 1938 Duke team. Though they outrushed the Easterners by 135 yards to 86, outpassed them by 84 yards to 53, not until the final minute did they succeed. Then with four magnificent forward passes, as dramatic as a Hollywood scenario, the Pacific Coast champions smudged Duke's clean slate...