Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unless the President would make a further compromise, they would vote to send it back to the committee. The Vice President told them what he meant to do. That evening, he took Senators Harrison, Barkley and Pittman and went back to talk to "The Boss." He even got in touch with Senator Wagner, about to write a stinging reply to Governor Lehman who had urged him to vote against the Court Bill (TIME, July 26). The Vice President advised the Senator not to make himself ridiculous: by the time his answer was published there would be no Court Bill before...
...private member's bill such as this been permitted by His Majesty's Government to win its way through the Lords and Commons, but in England divorce is still such a risky subject that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has been overjoyed not to have to touch this bill, fortunately presented by a sort of Court Jester to His Majesty the British Public. Jester Herbert has not taken lightly criticisms of his bill by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Last week he rasped harshly in his hour of triumph at the Primate of All England: "I am bound...
...Roosevelt might well have thought it had set against him. Senator Robinson's sudden death was followed by the threat that his whole Court Plan might fail (see p. 10). A new fight over the majority leadership of the Senate impended, a fight in which it was likewise touch & go whether the President could have his way (see p. 12). On top of these things, the Lehman letter was a serious blow...
Majority Leader Joe Robinson had taken it easy that day. He felt a little better. A week before when he opened the great debate on enlarging the Supreme Court he had had a touch of the heart trouble which sometimes bothered him. "No more questions today," he cried. "Goodby!" and stalked from the floor looking pale. Few of his colleagues had known what to make of it. Only yesterday he had had another touch. Sitting in his front row seat on the aisle, he had swung around to listen to Senator Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming, speaking against...
...deficits have exceeded $10,000,000 for the last three years and show no signs of falling. Casting about for some way of adding substantial millions to the city's revenues, they fished out a plan first proposed five years ago but hitherto regarded as too drastic to touch. This was a tax of four mills on every dollar of most of the "personal property" (securities) held in Philadelphia by mutual savings banks and mutual life and fire insurance companies. This time the Council passed the tax and put it up to Mayor Wilson for approval...