Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle gave a despairing wail, froze tight. Provision men came running from all sides to see the show. The man in the greatcoat began to read in an enormous voice from the paper in his hands...
...Charms and Polly Wolly Doodle. She also has a new foil in the person of a plump, solemn youngster named Edward McManus, who dances the minuet with her at a children's party, gravely pipes his apologies at being unable to bow low because his pantaloons are too tight...
...beyond that stage -but it is conducting a great humanitarian work which because of"-the train began to move-"its already proven success is going to mean much for the country in the days to come.'' The train was pulling out and Franklin Roosevelt, grasping tight the arm of Gus Gennerich, pitched the microphone into which he had been speaking over the railing to its owners on the platform. Following morning the Presidential train was parked in the Chicago Union Stockyards. Nearby, in the International Amphitheatre, Franklin Roosevelt stood looking down on 18,000 delegates to the annual...
...barred from use of the mails. Since holding companies representing some 80% of the U. S. utility business refused to register with the Securities & Exchange Commission, the major part of the industry was last week probably violating the law. This put Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley in a tight spot. He finally wriggled out by announcing that he had no intention of cracking down on utility letter-writing-"at least not before the validity of the Act is judicially determined by the Supreme Court...
...Mass. There he headed the Massachusetts drive of Herbert Hoover's private Committee on Unemployment until in 1933 Franklin Roosevelt, one of his old Wartime friends, called him back to be Undersecretary of State. Such is William Phillips' career, a career which never put him in a tight place, diplomatic or otherwise. But capable is the diplomat whose career is uncheckered. No one has ever alleged that the present Undersecretary of State is an eagle of intellect, but he has done many a job competently and quietly. Among them was the distribution of $1,000,000, willed...