Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While other Senators joined the hue & cry. Majority Leader Barkley got in touch with Harry Hopkins. That very day the campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
While Stillman Infirmary will never succeed in winning the reputation of a pleasure palace, the terrors of being sent up the river with a touch of grippe have greatly diminished since Miss Corbett has become its head nurse. Announcement of her appointment last fall to succeed Mrs. Brooks, who was retiring, caused no great stir, yet in less than a year her cheerfulness plus her precision have transformed the College hospital...
...legitimately historic. More than any other man, Motorman Ford personifies to millions the triumph of the rugged virtues of the American Way. He had consistently and successfully resisted NRA. He is currently doing battle with the National Labor Relations Board and C. I. O. And for the romantic touch dear to the reading American, this was to be his first meeting with the President since the World War days when Henry Ford manufactured submarine chasers for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt...
...close collaboration of State & Church distinguishes the Mussolini dictatorship from others. A hollow cornerstone of what will be the Church of Pomezia was ready, Il Duce slipped in a parchment and some newly minted Italian coins of 1938, seized the trowel and slapped, spread mortar with the professional touch he has shown in cornerstoning other cities of Littoria (see map), namely Littoria, the capital of the Province, Sabaudia, Pontinia and Aprilia. "Ceremonies such as these require no speeches -for facts are more eloquent than words!" said the Dictator shortly, before climbing back behind the wheel of his car. Up went...
Raymond Pike, juggler extraordinary, lends another artistic touch to the program which already includes Dennis King," "Chuck" Waters, Audrey Christie, and Vivienne Segal...