Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John...
Messrs. Warren & Co. followed the scheme laid down by agile-minded Jimmy Byrnes in the Senate: let the opposition talk its head off, then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity...
Middlemen. House histrionics, the 1940 political situation, and the network of Washington intrigues meant little to one suffering group of U. S. citizens. All the shipping lines could see were the angular lines of the combat areas defined by the President, wherein no U. S. ship may deliver goods of...
Last week they returned to Judge Igoe's court. The foreman polled them perfunctorily. Up piped Mrs. Merrifield in a suddenly hushed courtroom: "That was not and is not my verdict. . . . I signed through cowardice. I submitted to the will of the majority."
Through the Center in the past nine months (to attend seven features alone) have traipsed 8,200,300 visitors, roundly enough to populate London, Paris and Manhattan.