Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
...glossy little brochure touting the industrial advantages of his bailiwick, Mayor Frank Hague boasts that "an outstanding feature of Jersey City has been the stability of its municipal administration and the fairness of its policy toward the worker and capital alike." Boss Hague has been mayor for nearly a quarter-century and lately declared without conscious exaggeration: "I am the law." It so happened that Boss Hague was addressing a gathering of church-going constituents on juvenile delinquency when he dropped that Bourbon remark, but it has plagued him ever since in connection with his conception of "fairness...
...unarmed Captain Sanders in his office. Since Captain Sanders had given instructions to disregard any order he might give under such circumstances, Corporal Christmus called Prison Superintendent J. S. Wilson. Colonel Wilson called South Carolina's 41-year-old Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, who hurried to the prison. Toward the window of Captain Sanders' office marched the Governor with his hands deep in his overcoat pockets...
Although Russians still have their mail tampered with, their telephones tapped, and are still likely to be waked up in the night to be carted off to jail without warrant or due process of law, it was a first step toward their education in democracy when Stalin's constitution labeled these things unconstitutional. So likewise it was education last week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious...
Apparently tiring toward the close of the first half, the Varsity left the floor between periods with a scant 24-18 edge on the Terriers...