Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Cullen led off a three-hour debate by reciting the threadbare arguments for beer as a revenue-raiser, "a vital step toward prosperity." Drys raged and roared impotently. Swinging to his feet Missouri's stocky Claiborne announced: "As a good drinking man I'm interested in this beer bill for drinking purposes. I not only want a good glass of beer but I want a good drink of whiskey and I hope the time will come when I can walk into a decent saloon and get both." Then he sat down, chewed his cigar impatiently...
Tammany Hall furnished the first horrid example of what was in store for Democratic organizations that tried to buck the White House. On the first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the opposition was Brooklyn's freckled Cullen, assistant majority leader of the House, who explained that he had made campaign pledges against salary pension cuts. Said he: "I'm with the President 100% but I'd given my word to my constituents...
...wings. Throughout the program LeRoy Anspach and Dunham Gilbert, two of Columbia Broadcasting System's crack engineers, sat there. Hitherto Stokowski's broadcasts have been monitored from a booth in the wings. But before last week's concert Stokowski announced that they played too vital a part to be kept in the background. His mind would be easier if he had them in front of him, watching his face, perhaps catching the sudden inspirations to which his orchestramen respond...
...subjects discussed, but they were purely limited in interest and related to the author's own particular field. Among them was one on aesthetics in a communistic state. The editors in general have been surprised at the lack of interest by men in college on such important topics as vital college problems and issues of world importance...
...thing the Soviet State always gives its citizens is ACTION-a new deal, good or bad, almost every day on something vital to every Russian. Last week with customary abruptness the State...