Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steamy Twaddlers Sirs: Three cheers for TIME'S refusal to shed crocodile tears over the terrific heat in Washington [TIME, July 29]. After reading daily in newspapers that our legislators are lying exhausted in their air-cooled chambers and can do nothing but drink lemonade and fan themselves, it...
In Chicago westbound on his vacation, Postmaster General Farley paused to say a kind word for the poor heat-bedeviled bachelor in the White House: "The President is in astonishingly good health but, like all the rest of us who have to endure the sodden heat of Washington, he is...
Said he of newspaper headlines. "My vacation trips never caused any excitement before but this year just because I brought my wife's relatives, you'd think it was the Lewis & Clark expedition playing a return engagement."
Much as freedom-loving Frenchmen hate and fear a Dictator, their Chamber and Senate recently vested swarthy Premier Pierre Laval with dictatorial fiscal powers (TIME, June 17). So long as Parliament remained in session, canny M. Laval lay low, was criticized for not using his powers. With Deputies and Senators...
With Austria's two picturesque political adventurers. Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg and Major Emil Fey, both on vacation, ambitious youngsters in their turbulent Heimwehr organization loudly demanded of each other why they did not seize the trembling government then & there by a coup d'etat...