Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. In its broadest aspect the 1930 Congressional election was a serious reversal for President Hoover and his Administration. Last month he personally visited three States (Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina). In each of them the election tide ran against him. Directly or indirectly he and his actions, or lack of action, were implicit issues under the criss-cross veneer of local questions. Voters struck...
Sirs: The attached clipping concerning Walter Wellman which appeared in the Detroit Free Press of Oct. 13, particularly interested me as I have in preparation a History of the Wellman family in America. ... I would be greatly interested whether TIME, which in the adagial sense, like the tide, "waits for no man" can enlighten the Free Press as well as myself as to the present whereabouts and condition of this well-known explorer & writer of only two decades ago. Can it be that through ill-fortune he has passed into obscurity at 72 (born Nov. 3, 1858)? Might I suggest...
...latest "discovery," less partisan Wall Street traders explained that one good reason why the stockmarket did not respond to Republican statements of business improvements was because the Administration's predictions, from President Hoover's down to Secretary of Labor Davis', for a turn in the economic tide, had all failed to come true...
...joke about Chicago's crime-tide has long been the prerogative of colyumists, cartoonists, comedians. Last week a high Federal official joined the game. Munching a lettuce sandwich, sipping milk, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock sat in his office and told Washington newshawks about his recent visit to Chicago. Perhaps in all seriousness, but with ludicrous effect, he said: "I saw nothing of the speakeasies that are reported to flourish [there]. Why, I even walked down some of the so-called 'bad streets' several nights. ... I saw no machine-guns on street corners, or anything like...
Thebaud stood into the tide. It was an ebb tide, running strong, but when she turned she had it full on her beam, washing her toward the mark. The seas were lifting her forward, too. The eleven minutes she gained on that leg gave her a ten minute lead that won the race and the series for her: 2-0. And at the Gloucester City Hall, Mayor John Parker gave to the men of Thebaud the new cup Sir Thomas Lipton had put up for the series...