Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed his section, had to raise a point of no quorum three times and finally threaten to demand a careful reading of the whole bill before Democratic leaders would consent to a re-reading of the section. On the quorum calls the presiding officer, North Carolina's Lindsay Warren, glanced at the 40-odd members present, announced counts of 108, 102, 117.* Three perfecting amendments offered by Democratic Ways & Means Committeemen were swiftly adopted, two by the Republican opposition were just as swiftly voted down. Total time for reading and amending the 236-page bill...
Popular with his rural constituents until he began maligning AAA, Senator Dickinson faces a hard fight for re-election this year. But that prospect has lately been assuaged by the buzzing in his large, well-shaped head of some such exciting thought as the following: "If Warren Harding could get the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920, why can't I get it in 1936?" Like Harding, "Dick" Dickinson, with his big frame, Roman features and shock of silver-white hair, makes a handsome, impressive figure. Like Harding, he would personify a return to normalcy after a hectic Democratic regime...
...G.O.P. propaganda offices in Washington this summer. Best: "...Since God must be somewhere behind the New Deal, it's his way of avenging the South for the 'Reconstruction' period". In addition: "...Good sports in the Republican ranks say it's got to be taken; it's just retribution for Warren Harding...
Strangest sculpture of the show is able Warren Wheelock's wooden head of William Randolph Hearst from whose eye-sockets shockingly jut two red corks. Title: Hearst Sees...
...Science's sake one afternoon last fortnight four students at University of Southern California started to stay awake as long, as possible. Psychologist Brant Clark and his coworker, Dr. Neil Warren, wanted to clarify the physiological effects of a long period without sleep. After a day or two, attendants had such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into...