Word: touched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regular monthly meetings of the Council are to be a fixture, it was learned, in an attempt to establish an undergraduate athletic body that is active and in touch with trends of student opinion...
...blood was made up by Wheeler's plaintive query: "I don't know when the administration became averse to age." He cited the late Attorney-General Walsh, Justice Brandeis, and the elderly Senators Glass, Borah, Norris and Johnson as men who have not "failed to keep in touch with modern affairs." Roosevelt's offer of a cabinet post to seventy-nine-year old Carter Glass is evidence that age and liberalism are not always separate in the President's mind. The administration is in reality seeking some very particular new blood, and not the rather theoretical advantages of young blood...
...formula worked so well that last week his plants were operating at 100% capacity, despite the fact that some 4,000 idle employes still considered themselves on strike. Egged on by the A. F. of L., Secretary of Labor Perkins had for some weeks been trying to get in touch with Mr. Rand, whose associates professed themselves completely in the dark as to his whereabouts. Last week she took the extraordinary step of publishing an open letter in the press requesting him to come to Washington to discuss his labor troubles with her. A Rand vice president promptly telegraphed that...
...home folks with much pencil-biting and puckering of brow. We didn't go so far as to peck over her shoulder but it was evident that it was an urgent request of some kind and she was afraid the demand was couched in too dictatorial terms. Some mollifying touch was necessary to close...
...stunning disappointment to the men and women who have worked for years to drive him out of public life. It must also be a lesson in practical politics, teaching that a machine is not necessarily beaten by one defeat at the polls. Oratory and newspaper articles do not touch the secret sources of the voting strength of a man like Curley, and only by an attack on his influence in the back wards will the career of King James be halted. Two ways are open to the people of Boston who wish to curb the magnificent power for evil that...